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Building a Ball Mill for Grinding Chemicals

Learn how to build a ball mill for grinding solids into fine powders. Commercial ball mills can cost more than $100, but with this tutorial you'll be able to make one that works just as well for no more than $30!
Views 7706 | Rating 73 | Comments 11| Date Aug 11, 2007
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How to build a visco fuse machine

A step-by-step guide to building a visco fuse machine similar to the one I built at home. It can easily make a foot of visco fuse per minute and it is possible to make even more.
Views 5899 | Rating 268 | Comments 28| Date Jun 24, 2008
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Synthesizing Pyrophoric Iron (iron that spontaneously ignites)

This tutorial will show you make pyrophoric iron from household chemicals. When this finely-divided form of iron is exposed to air, it spontaneously ignites.
Views 5878 | Rating 7 | Comments 1| Date Aug 14, 2007
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Basic photography 101 - A Users Guide to Understanding All Those #@$! Numbers and Terms!

So you got a new digital or 35mm camera. Congratulations! Now all that's left before you go out to take some outstanding pictures is to try and figure out what all those numbers on your camera mean. The instruction book that came with your camera is good...
Views 5865 | Rating 95 | Comments 9| Date Aug 8, 2007
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Build a Magnetic Stirrer From An Old Computer

Learn how to build a magnetic stirrer from an old computer for use in the home laboratory. It'll cost you almost nothing!
Views 4884 | Rating 36 | Comments 3| Date Aug 12, 2007
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Google Picasa Basics

Google's Picasa program will help you organize, edit, and share your digital photographs -- and it's FREE! This tutorial walks you through the basics of importing and organizing pictures in Picasa. Look for my other Picasa-related tutorials.
Views 1838 | Rating 8 | Comments 0| Date Apr 27, 2008
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Speak Spanish!

How To Speak Spanish: Some Frequently Used Words, Phrases, and Conversation in the Spanish Language
Views 1626 | Rating 3 | Comments 1| Date Mar 22, 2008
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Assigning Oxidation Numbers to Chemical Formulae

This tutorial is for introductory chemistry students. Learn the five easy steps to assigning oxidation numbers to atoms in chemical formulae. Also, I will give you some problems that teachers love to give on tests because they are "tricky".
Views 1551 | Rating 12 | Comments 2| Date Aug 15, 2007
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How to Create Make a Cut Capo for Alternate Guitar Tunings

This tutorial will show you how to cut out one of your normal capos and turn it into what I call a "cut capo", one that presses down a few string while leaving others open. It creates amazing sounds and is fun to play with.
Views 1439 | Rating 2 | Comments 1| Date Feb 7, 2009
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Old timer catfish bait

A lot of old timers use to make this bait and fish with it, they would catch their limit within an hours time or so the story goes, read on to learn the bait.
Views 1315 | Rating 2 | Comments 0| Date May 22, 2010
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Using Picasa to Share Your Photographs

Google’s Picasa offers a number of ways to share photos, all of which are tightly integrated with other Google-owned products. This tutorial will walk you through sharing your photographs using Picasa.
Views 1290 | Rating 3 | Comments 0| Date Apr 27, 2008
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How to make cool fluorescen ink which will glow under blacklight

This is a fun, cheap way to make some cool fluoroscent ink which will glow under black-light but remain almost invisible in normal conditions
Views 1238 | Rating 11 | Comments 0| Date Nov 11, 2008
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Using Picasa to Solve Simple Photo Problems

This tutorial covers how to use Picasa to fix a few of the most common problems with digital photographs: red eye, color correction, contrast, leveling, and cropping. I'll also show you how to create a quick collage!
Views 1198 | Rating 3 | Comments 1| Date Apr 27, 2008
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How to build a lean-to

How to build a lean-to, a simple shelter for campers
Views 1142 | Rating -1 | Comments 0| Date Jan 27, 2009
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Where to find Household Chemicals

This tutorial will give you all the sources I know of for household chemicals in the United States. This excludes chemical suppliers and ebay. A good majority of these household items are impure sources of chemicals, so in order to obtain just the desired...
Views 1064 | Rating 4 | Comments 0| Date Aug 12, 2007