Comments on: Earplugs and PVA Glue

Earplugs and PVA Glue

Confess, Fletch — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 19:22:05 -0800

By: RolandOfEld

RolandOfEld — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 19:41:56 -0800

It's cool, the tech nerd machinist in me loves it. But.... I wanted to create an externalised joint that would enable me to combine a big range of different materials that normally would require very time consuming methods of jointing them together. At the same time a decorative pattern appears with the different colours of the thread. You mean like nails or screws? I guess I'm just saying a better proof of concept video is out there if the makers want to go for it...

By: GrumpyDan

GrumpyDan — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 19:51:49 -0800

You mean like nails or screws? Ever tried to drive a nail through a piece of steel? Or glass? They used wood for convenience/ availability, I guess, but in theory any two materials could be "bound" in this manner...for...art projects, I guess? Anyway, I spent the whole video cringing at what might happen if someone got their thumb all wrapped up.

By: justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow

justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 20:05:22 -0800

It looks more complicated than I would have expected for a thread wrapping machine. I wouldn't rule out the possibility that it's opening a portal to a parallel universe where the inserted objects are already fused.

By: RolandOfEld

RolandOfEld — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 20:06:32 -0800

Ever tried to drive a nail through a piece of steel? Or glass? Of course there's a use case, I just don't think they did a great job of illustrating it in this video.

By: Ad hominem

Ad hominem — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 20:06:42 -0800

If I had one of those I'd be out of thread in an hour just wrapping shit."ooh a banana, lemme wrap that", "ooh a bag of funions", "ooh my arm, lemme wrap that too".

By: NortonDC

NortonDC — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 20:15:16 -0800

OSHA sense tingling...

By: ryanrs

ryanrs — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 20:27:51 -0800

This seems like a shitty version of a braiding machine.

By: velebita

velebita — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 20:33:51 -0800

PVA glue is the ultimate art supply for making stuff cheap and fast. We used to go through buckets of in the puppet shop.

By: InsertNiftyNameHere

InsertNiftyNameHere — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 20:34:10 -0800

They may see a thread wrapping machine, but I see a finger removal machine.

By: mochapickle

mochapickle — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 21:04:10 -0800

Those braiding machine videos are wonderful. If they installed a working braiding machine at like MoMa I would sit and watch it all day.

By: Sternmeyer

Sternmeyer — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 21:09:33 -0800

No hand or eye protection? Idiots.

By: blueberry

blueberry — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 21:34:44 -0800

"ooh a bag of funions" That's Funyuns, old boy. Funions are atoms or molecules with extra/missing electrons, but yet a certain joie de vivre.

By: notsnot

notsnot — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 22:00:47 -0800

mochapickle: "Those braiding machine videos are wonderful. If they installed a working braiding machine at like MoMa I would sit and watch it all day." If you're ever in St. Louis, you're in luck.

By: Tube

Tube — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 22:01:41 -0800

I built and sold lamps for a time. I would hand wrap various synthetic materials like Kevlar or Nomex around steel frames. I didn't use any adhesive, and the filaments held just fine. I certainly fantasized about "wrapping machines" while hand wrapping! Also, do the wrappers in this video ever make nice looking things?

By: 1f2frfbf

1f2frfbf — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 22:04:53 -0800

I approve of this, but only if the machine is nicknamed "Christo."

By: intermod

intermod — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 22:11:19 -0800

Seconding ryanrs' post above. Carbon fiber braiding machines are awesome.

By: mrbill

mrbill — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 22:17:39 -0800

The "ore" instead of "or" typo is making me twitch.

By: mrbill

mrbill — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 22:19:15 -0800

Also: the end result looks like Spider-Man got fed up with the IKEA assembly instructions.

By: MrMoonPie

MrMoonPie — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 22:23:04 -0800

I approve of this, but only if the machine is nicknamed "Tupac."

By: slothhog

slothhog — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 22:46:00 -0800

This is what it looks like when I try to sew something pretty. I was pretty excited to see this for some reason and then oddly deflated that the thread didn't look pleasing (to me) and the connectrorized( favorite family word) part looked wobbly.

By: DU

DU — Sun, 14 Jul 2013 02:53:00 -0800

I wanted to create an externalised joint that would enable me to combine a big range of different materials that normally would require very time consuming methods of jointing them together. Like bolts? Drill two holes and you are done. (Drilling through steel is easy and learning how takes a lot less work than hiring a guy to help you heave your thing through a thread wrapping machine.)

By: seanmpuckett

seanmpuckett — Sun, 14 Jul 2013 05:13:22 -0800

Video of the shoelace braider at the St Louis museum. I looked at the carbon fiber braiders and thought, damn, cool future tech awesome robot machine, but the shoelace machine was made in 1870 and uses the same technique of alternately roving spools. So cool!

By: ishrinkmajeans

ishrinkmajeans — Sun, 14 Jul 2013 06:46:55 -0800

I thought it was really cool. There's other things you could do with it that would make it more structurally sound. Like coating all the odd threads with compound A and all the even threads with compound B that are the two parts you mix to get superglue (or at least the stuff at Home Depot comes that way). There are probably plastic materials out there that will bond and melt together under heat and pressure and be strong in the end. I'm thinking this would be really fun to do with different colors of saran wrap cord (just aim a couple blowdriers into the middle where the thing is getting wrapped to melt it together - it would give a cool tie dye effect!)

By: Jpfed

Jpfed — Sun, 14 Jul 2013 07:03:56 -0800

Man, the Lilliputians are going to love this!

By: Ivan Fyodorovich

Ivan Fyodorovich — Sun, 14 Jul 2013 07:26:05 -0800

"Like coating all the odd threads with compound A and all the even threads with compound B that are the two parts you mix to get superglue (or at least the stuff at Home Depot comes that way)." That's not superglue. You're probably thinking of an epoxy. Superglue is cyanoacrylate and water (vapor in the air, or notably on skin) is the curing agent.

By: ishrinkmajeans

ishrinkmajeans — Sun, 14 Jul 2013 07:57:42 -0800

Ok epoxy then.

By: mule98J

mule98J — Sun, 14 Jul 2013 08:02:44 -0800

I can attest to the underlying theory (string, as binders). I once sat around my campfire and repaired the wooden tree of a pack saddle, using a 30' length of suspension line--alternating half-hitches all along the break. One of the bars on the tree was cracked when Jasper the Flying Mule decided to roll over with it on his back. The repair was solid, and I used that saddle for years before I finally sold it. I still have fun playing with strings and strips of leather. Good on these guys for coming up with something that's fun to watch, as well as...um...having some possible practical applications.

By: backseatpilot

backseatpilot — Sun, 14 Jul 2013 09:42:48 -0800

They're about two steps away from reinventing fiberglass, it looks like. Makers are going to need to start hiring interns to do lit review pretty soon.

By: sonascope

sonascope — Sun, 14 Jul 2013 10:08:43 -0800

It's like a clockwork Judith Scott.

By: b1tr0t

b1tr0t — Sun, 14 Jul 2013 10:55:46 -0800

Makers are going to need to start hiring interns to do lit review pretty soon.

No joke. The guys who make sails for America's Cup boats and other highly competitive racing have some interesting patents in place covering processes for manufacturing resin impregnated textiles that have been formed into specific shapes.

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Sun, 14 Jul 2013 14:10:45 -0800

If they can make this work with string cheese they will be billionaires.