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How To Grow Fish Bait At Home With No Effort

May 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Meal worms are easy to grow at home. These come in two sizes - small and giant. I like the small’s, but I have a buddy who grows the giant’s. Get a new 5 gallon bucket (no lid). Buy these from your fast-food places for around $1.00. Then go to the bait shop and buy [...]

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How To Make Jewelry From “Ordinary” Treasures

May 19th, 2008 · No Comments

Almost everyone has a box of sparkling old buttons from Grandma’s sewing chest to marvel at, or set of dominoes, checkers or mahjongg pieces rescued from a flea market. Maybe they have a partial Scrabble game and perhaps even a collection of colorful, fifty-one-to-a-deck playing cards purchased at an antique store tucked away in a [...]

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How To Make Your Own Plastic Molded Objects

May 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Sulpho-Plastics

This plastic is particularly adaptable for making molds and light castings requiring tensile strength but very clear outline. It may also be used for making ornaments and novelties. However, as this is flammable, do not use for ashtrays.
While the name would convey the thought of plastic sulphur which is an unstable allotropic form of [...]

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How To Make Lamps And Vases From Bottles

May 18th, 2008 · No Comments

How to Cut Glass Without a Diamond Cutter:

Method 1: Dip a piece of common string in alcohol or kerosene and squeeze dry or as dry as it will get without dripping. This string should then be placed on the already marked glass and tied tight. Light the string and let it burn off. Immediately, [...]

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Insect and Roach Exterminator

May 7th, 2008 · No Comments

Mix the following: 1lb Borax and 6oz powdered sugar. Add 1oz cocoa powder and 2oz sodium fluoride. Mix well.
Sprinkle around places pest are known to frequent.
Keep away from children and pets.
Supplied by: The Master Healer
Lee Porter an author and entrepreneur for HealthSufficiency, a continuing health, personal development and life dynamic education and business development company [...]

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Keeping Chimney Flue Free of Soot

May 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Mix 1 cup salt with 1 cup zinc oxide powder (available at ceramic shop or drugstore) and sprinkle on hot fire. This will help keep the chimney flue clean.
Lee Porter an author and entrepreneur for HealthSufficiency, a continuing health, personal development and life dynamic education and business development company helping people to be meet their [...]

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Firepoofing Christmas Trees

May 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Into 1 gallon water mix 1 cup ammonium sulphate (available from garden supply store), 1/2 cup boric acid (available from drugstore), and 2 tablespoons borax (available from grocery or hardware store).
Mix well. Spray on tree and let tree stand in this solution instead of in water.
Lee Porter an author and entrepreneur for HealthSufficiency, a continuing [...]

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Rubber Molds

May 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Gutta-Pursha Molds:
Purchase a sheet of Gutta-Percha, about one-fourth of an inch thick. Cut it about size desired. Soak it in Naptha (which causes it to swell), then soak it in hot water. This makes the sheet of Gutta-Percha soft and mushy in appearance, somewhat like a wet rag. Then in this condition, press it against [...]

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Flexible Mold Compound

May 4th, 2008 · No Comments

This is new mold material is much superior to ordinary gelatine (mold glue) and is very easily made. It does not shrink or dry out like ordinary casting gelatins. If made according to directions it will retain all its original qualities indefinitely, and can be re-melted when necessary.
Formula:

Flake Gelatin . . . . . [...]

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Six Simple Plastics Formulas

May 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Simplified Plastics
This is the age of plastics! One of the most amazing developments in this age of wonders . . . new developments and discoveries are constantly being made in the plastic field. Here is a truly rich field for experimentation. There are big opportunities in this field.
The history of Plastics dates back to about [...]

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