Shop Class

[manofthemullet.livejournal.com]

Today the classroom looks like a regular shop class again. Various materials have been pulled out of the storage room and the shop equipment has been set up.

Given how excited the students were about eating the food in the cooler in the last class, Mac has supplied an assortment of baked goods from Jeff the God of Biscuits and coffee.

Whether or not the coffee was made by one of the students previous projects? Mac isn't telling.

"Today's assignment is to build something that will assist one of your fellow students in their day to day life here in fandom."

[OOC Examples: Hair Care product caddy for Angel or Lee; a cricket bat rack for Marty; a frog pen for Xander's pet, etc.]

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Re: Assignment: [1/25]

[nadiathesaint]

First, Nadia cut down the metal funnel until it was only about an inch tall.
She looked over her supplies and realized she'd forgotten something. She jumped up, found a rubber cork, and fitted it into the glass bottle. It was a bit too large, so she used a pocket knife to carve it down until it was snug and secure, but removable. Then she used the drill bit to drill two holes through the cork, from top to bottom.

She bent the paperclips into a slightly fancy, twisted handle for the funnel, then used pliers to bend the edge of the funnel down over the paper clips, both to hold the handle in place and to eliminate any danger of cutting oneself on the sharp edge of the cut metal. She slid the funnel into one of the holes on the cork, then slid it in and out using the handle a couple times, before nodding to herself.

She cut the platic tubing into three pieces and threaded the shortest through the bottom of the hole with the funnel. She measured this against the glass bottle, then removed the funnel and secured the tubing in place using superglue. Once that was dry, she put the funnel back and made sure again that it would could be removed and replaced easily. She took a second length of tubing and threaded it through the other hole, this time leaving the majority of the tubing to come out the top, with only a few centimeters peaking out the bottom. She superglued that into place and set the cork to one side.

She drilled a hole in the plastic lid of the bin, and threaded the last piece of tubing through this. Then she superglued the bin to the side of the bottle and put the cork in place.

She spent a few seconds pondering the contraption, then jumped up and took it to the sink. She put about two inches of water into the bottle and replaced the cork, making sure the tubing from the funnel reached well into the water, then filled the plastic bin and replaced the lid. She set the contraption to one side, turned off the water, and leaned over to inspect the faucet.

Then she used a pair of needlenosed pliers to pry out the small metal screen that distributed the water, dried it off on a paper towel, and pressed it into the funnel.

Her work complete, she set it on her table and went for some coffee.

Re: Assignment: [1/25]

[manofthemullet.livejournal.com]

Though impressed by the contraption, Mac is slightly disappointed that there isn't any duct tape being used.

Re: Assignment: [1/25]

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia smiles up at Mack, then tilts her head and looks at her creation.

Now she just needs to find a place to get the stuff to test it out.