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Heating with 5 Gallon Buckets
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Loudspeaker
In the well-known science fiction novel Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the Earth is blown apart to make way for a space freeway. When the space demolition team notified the earthlings of their upcoming doom, they use an advanced sound amplifying technology that turned every flat surface on earth into a sounding board, allowing them to broadcast to every human simultaneously.
Often, our actual technology catches up quickly with our science fiction technology. This sound reproduction technology first published by Douglas Adams is the latest scifi dream become reality.
This is the OrigAudio Universal Vibration Speaker. It claims to “turn ANY object into a speaker.” Here’s Five Gallon Correspondent Jeremy Cook testing it out on a 5 gallon bucket. Continue reading
Computer Cable Management
The term “cable management” describes the art of organizing your computer or home theater wiring in a way that it doesn’t look like a dish of electronic spaghetti.
Gift Basket
Here’s an idea appropriate for Valentine’s day. Now you can express your affections with a 5 gallon bucket (or crate, whatever.)
The editor at Hoosier Homemade makes these every year for the guys in her life. Read about it and see more pictures on her website.
Gamma Seal Lids
The Problem with Snap Lids
Taking standard snap lids off of 5 gallon buckets is extraordinary difficult. I’ve encountered lids that have taken ten minutes and several rest periods to get off. The trick is actually to pull out on the rim rather than up.
Several inventions have hit your local bucket outlet to deal with this problem, including the bucket opener pictured to the left. It opens buckets in under a second, and saves your fingertips for another day. Check out our bucket wrench article if it suits your fancy.
The Solution: Spinning Lids
For a more permanent solution, here’s the Gamma seal lid. It screws on and comes with its own grips to make screwing and unscrewing easier. Gamma seal lids are much easier to open, yet are just as waterproof as your vanilla bucket.
Gamma seal lids come in two parts, the rim and the center piece. The rim is affixed permanently to the bucket, with help of a rubber mallet. Continue reading