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With the rising cost of health care, I'm sure you have found yourself wondering about how difficult a kidney transplant could really be. Just like dropping a tranny on a 1989 Ford Tempo right? With this instructable, you can make those DIY hobby knife, health and pet care dreams come true. A DIY vibro-scalpel! Now you too can cut tomatoes like a hot knife through butter, amaze your friends, and run a lucrative cosmetic surgery practice in your spare time. You can't afford to live without this miracle item. Construct and use this tool at your own risk. (Note: Do not use this device to cut living tissue unless properly licensed by the appropriate governing agency)
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Background:
If you are like me, then you are too lazy to brush your own teeth and have relied on the ministrations of an electric toothbrush for years. The trouble with these and any other consumer item is that they become obsolete. Electric toothbrushes are no exception, and the slim, mouth-friendly models of today mock the clunky jaw spreading antiques of yesterday. As the NiCad batteries in my old Philips sonicare (with quad pacer) gave up the ghost, I upgraded to the latest, slimmer sonicare. Not one to throw anything with any remote possibility of usefulness out, I saved my old toothbrush for the day when it could be retasked to a new, more glorious application. That time has come.
These toothbrushes are a marvel of engineering, waterproof, powerful, and oscillating at high frequency the Philips sonicare can cut through plaque and tartar build up with ease. If this unit can cut through mouth funk, then why can't it cut through mouth too? No reason, no reason indeed. So I set out to marry my trusty X-acto knife with my outdated but hard working Philips Sonicare toothbrush to yield an amazing new tool, the vibro-scalpel.
Search for vibro-scalpel on the series of tubes know as teh Internets, and you will find a variety of hits, all of which involve role playing games of some type. So the idea isn't that new I guess, but the implementation appears to be.
Materials List:
To build your own vibro-scalpel you will need the following (quantities in bold).
1x Electric toothbrush motor body (Philips Sonicare HX4511)
1x Electric toothbrush head compatible with the above motor body
1x X-acto knife, the small size #1
Required tools:
Hacksaw (not Jim Duggan)
Hand drill
5/32" Drill bit
13/64 Drill bit
Propane torch
Below you can see the X-acto knife and toothbrush used for this project, as well as a close up of the business ends of both.
If you are like me, then you are too lazy to brush your own teeth and have relied on the ministrations of an electric toothbrush for years. The trouble with these and any other consumer item is that they become obsolete. Electric toothbrushes are no exception, and the slim, mouth-friendly models of today mock the clunky jaw spreading antiques of yesterday. As the NiCad batteries in my old Philips sonicare (with quad pacer) gave up the ghost, I upgraded to the latest, slimmer sonicare. Not one to throw anything with any remote possibility of usefulness out, I saved my old toothbrush for the day when it could be retasked to a new, more glorious application. That time has come.
These toothbrushes are a marvel of engineering, waterproof, powerful, and oscillating at high frequency the Philips sonicare can cut through plaque and tartar build up with ease. If this unit can cut through mouth funk, then why can't it cut through mouth too? No reason, no reason indeed. So I set out to marry my trusty X-acto knife with my outdated but hard working Philips Sonicare toothbrush to yield an amazing new tool, the vibro-scalpel.
Search for vibro-scalpel on the series of tubes know as teh Internets, and you will find a variety of hits, all of which involve role playing games of some type. So the idea isn't that new I guess, but the implementation appears to be.
Materials List:
To build your own vibro-scalpel you will need the following (quantities in bold).
1x Electric toothbrush motor body (Philips Sonicare HX4511)
1x Electric toothbrush head compatible with the above motor body
1x X-acto knife, the small size #1
Required tools:
Hacksaw (not Jim Duggan)
Hand drill
5/32" Drill bit
13/64 Drill bit
Propane torch
Below you can see the X-acto knife and toothbrush used for this project, as well as a close up of the business ends of both.
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this has been around for quite a while.
Now, do you have any ideas to adapt another sonic or vibrating device to a pet hair de-matting comb? In case you're not familiar with the de-matting comb, it has about 8 curved blades attached to a handle and only the inner curve is sharpened. The tip of the blades are dulled. Here's an example: http://www.petco.com/Assets/product_images/7/742583320129C.jpg