SuperTruck: Foam Bed Cover Continues

November 27, 2012

  Did some carving today… Not Turkey, styrofoam! I took a look at a few different ways of cutting the foam. I started with a home-built hot wire cutter. It didn’t work as well as I hoped. I used a heating wire from an old electric space heater. That is a flat wire. It cut […]

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SuperTruck: Flat Foam Bed Cover

November 25, 2012

Lately, I was getting a bit down on myself for not having more already accomplished on my Open Source Hybrid Truck project. When my friend, Tim, was over the other day, he actually reminded me how excited HE was about the project and that I need to keep working on it and keep blogging about […]

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Grill-Blocks, Block-Heaters, and the EV Switch

November 24, 2012

Recently, my buddy Tim was in a collision, which wrecked his Prius. He bought a replacement – same make, model and year, but it didn’t have any fuel economy modifications to it yet. So, Tim and I made a date to work on upgrading our vehicles. Primarily, it would be specifically to make the cars […]

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Things I know nothing about… Fiberglass!

November 21, 2012

What do I know about fiberglass? Well, next to nothing. I even called a few people I know that I figured must have done some fiberglass work before. And they hadn’t. I’d love to learn a bit about fiberglass. It’s a durable material, and I’ve seen so many cool things done with it, yet I […]

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DIY Black Friday & X-Mas Sale!

November 21, 2012

Trying to find the perfect gift for the “hard-to-buy-for” special someone? How about the gift of D.I.Y.? Instead of supporting a mega-corporation by buying poorly-made consumer products, give your loved ones entertainment, skills, and hands-on learning through our DIY series of instructional DVD sets! Of course everyone’s budgets have been a bit tight these last […]

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CRASH! DIY Vehicle Safety

November 17, 2012

When I got an e-mail titled “RIP Prius”, I knew it couldn’t be good, but when I opened it and saw THIS photo, I was more than a bit concerned about my buddy, Tim. Tim told me in the message that he had been in an accident two days earlier. He was just driving along, […]

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Ready for Take-Off! Unplugging things first…

October 18, 2012

One of my favorite pastimes is wandering through “The Man Aisle” at the thrift store. Never know what you’ll find there. Case in point – a Pitot Tube Protector. I didn’t even know what you call this thing until I stumbled on one new it its original packaging. A while back, I bought a video […]

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EV Heat on the Cheap!

October 2, 2012

Lately, the days have been getting cooler, and the nights have been getting longer. While I haven’t used the Electro-Metro much this summer (I’ve mostly been on the EV Kawasaki motorcycle) I’m thinking that times are coming up soon where I’ll want a roof over my head and more than two wheels on the ground. […]

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Mother Earth Fair!

September 22, 2012

Hey Folks! If you saw any of my presentations at the mother Earth fair you’ve made it to the right place. Check out links to projects on the right or look below for other blog entries. I also have a YouTube channel, And many of my projects are on Instructables.com as well. Thanks for visiting, […]

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Eco-Road-Trip begins

September 14, 2012

  So, today began our roadtrip from west of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, out to the Mother Earth News Fair at Seven Springs Pennsylvania…. with a few stops on the way. My first hurdle was trying to leave in time to NOT HIT Friday afternoon rush-hour traffic in Chicago. Hope as I may, it seems impossible. The […]

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