Archive Gallery: Offbeat Uses for Common Household Objects
16.09.11
We've featured some wacky ideas over the days of old century, including instructions on how to turn razor dispensers into tiny tank models, but most of these projects were proposed by regular people like you and me. During the interwar era, we ran a series of monthly contests that asked readers to will alternate uses for everyday objects, such as old automobile tires, hairpins, and electrifying fans. One contestant soldered a hairpin onto his glasses to adjustment a broken nose piece. Another pinned his daughter's nose kill for eleven months to correct its stubby appearance. And impressively enough, a cook from Nebraska replaced the blades of his fan with bungle knives to create a potato slicer (now that's a project we would love to see on video, if severely video were a thing in 1919).
After the second World War, we started publishing a "X uses for Y" column where we recommended ways to return various household items. While none of these projects involved freewheeling slaughter knives, they project this quaint notion of a simpler dated that we love projecting onto the past. Before kids started owning their own cubicle phones, they could use a garden hose and a couple of cups as a "the horn" line between their tree houses and the ground. Porcelain doorknobs could be hardened as a pestle for crushing herbs. Spools could be used as skip rope handles. And with a wooden plank, some parchment, a few rubber bands, and an empty coffee can, you could toady up to a toy banjo! All this, just when we were wondering how kids entertained themselves before video games and TV became commonplace.
Source: Popular Science
Automotive Firm Fined after Worker Severs Finger in Work Accident
01.09.11
An automotive following based in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, has been prosecuted by the Health and Cover Executive (HSE), after an employee severed a finger in a horrific fortune at work .
Thirty seven year old Ajit Kandola, from Leamington Spa, was working for the multi patriotic automotive firm Grupo Antolin Ltd, who manufacture components for conveyance interiors, when his hand became caught in a foam-slicing make, which severed the index finger from his right hand.
Mr. Kandola had to waste five months away from work because of the severity of his injuries and he still finds performing unexciting tasks difficult and frustrating. He is still working for the company but is now employed in a unusual capacity.
An investigation by the HSE revealed that, Mr. Kandola’s hand had fly to pieces into contact with the rotating blade of the foam-slicer, which was not guarded at the time of the skirmish.
Grupo Antolin Leamington Ltd, of Tachbrook Park Operate, in Leamington Spa, was fined £5,500 after admitting a breach of the Constitution and Safety Regulations, following an appearance at Leamington Spa Magistrates’ Court. The enterprise was also ordered to pay a total of £2,858 in court costs.
Source: Injuries Direct News