The inventors workshop!

As a self-proclaimed inventor i hereby give you my run down, of the mind, of the inventor, the tools needed, and how to be a good inventor (Not a stupid " I found a cool idea and added something to it, its "my" Idea now")

please excuse my horrible grammer, spelling, and understanding of the english launguage.

Step 1: Tools needed!

Tools starting from most-important and ending in least-important
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The most helpful and productive tool in the inventors arsinal is a a hot glue gun,
ranging from $10-$200 dollars,

I personaly use a $20 glue gun, just about every day, its a wonderful
tool used to heat a synthetic plastic, then squirt said plastic onto a surface, creating a strong, cheap and instant bond (instant being 1-5 minutes)
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an Exacto knife and a box cutter
Ranging from $5-$20

again very cheap affordable tools, get 1 of each tool and some extra blades (about 5 for each device) they can cut into most objects, ranging from paper,cardboard,plastic,rubber and alot of other materials.
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A drill
Ranging from $40-$500

When it comes to power tools, i use Ryobi its a really cheap place to get good tools, while alot of people say there tools aren't good, i find they work well and get the job done. The only reason i use a drill is because i need to put holes into things (like an axel bearing or rivet, maybe to create a good holding/safety release)
Rarley do i use a drill for screwing things together... lol
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Muratiac Acid
$6-$10 per Gallon

Muriatiac acid is great for metal Burning (EI sketching of line cutting) reducation of metal, mold making (i might make an instructable for that, its makign a tin-foil mold, and burning teh tin foil off), Dissolving chemicals, ionising water. Its can be used in alot of things
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2 part Expoxy
$2-$20

If the hot glue isn't strong enough, expoxy sure is, its been claimed to be strogner than cement the only downside is that "5 minute dry time" is more like 30.
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Dremel
$20-$300

Dremels are cheap or expensive your call, although i prefer the cheaper end. These are like sand-paper on steriods, its used to reach, well, hard to reach spots and sand down anything in no time.
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Really I couldn't think of anything else i use..... an inventor tries to make use of what he/she can, in doing so almost and material or tool can be improvised for another. Its all about open thinking, as an expamle I need a cnc milling machine ones ($2k price tag for a 1 time use) I grabbed my mitar saw and slit by slit made an indentation until i had the shape i need. Oddly enough I rarely stray from the tools I listed above... the real deal happens in parts, when sourcing parts one must use the parts more than the tools (EI the part should be right and the tool shouldn't do much work)

Comments

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

i have all the exact same tools as you! drill dremel hot glue gun etc

[bloke2022]

Your "multitool" has a blacklight on it.

[bloke2022]

A blacklight, or UV light, does all of those things.

[gitm]

"Inventing" a way to make a golf ball go farther is not invention, it is innovation. In general, an improvement to an existing invention is called innovation. Check the patent office for more information on what constitutes invention.

[HisDivineShadow]

Well that depends....
Did the person invent the way to make the golfball go farther?
Or was he just the first maximillion to put it in a golf ball?
Not trying to be a pecimist unto you just curious...

[itsthatsguy]

Ahh, i was just creating an example, but i the point of this is, that if you take an old idea, like  golf ball, add a few dimples, its not a NEW idea, its still an ordinary golf ball.

[HisDivineShadow]

Understood....
But you werent scrutinizing it as i was...
I was talking of a more broad picture....
But i see where you come form and partialy agree....
Adding dimples might help but get some mass int it..
Give'em a lead core!
Same for the clubs... why not?

[Molten Boron]

How do I get muriatic acid?
Also, how do you do those neat things with just a multi-tool?

[Kiteman]

"Muriatic acid" is the (very) old name for hydrochloric acid.

Often sold as patio or brickwork cleaner, or for adjusting the pH of pools etc.

[itsthatsguy]

Muriatic acid, AKA painters acid, is avalable at painting stores and Some hardware stores (Home depot does not have it--weird right)

Its pretty cheap stuff, close to $6-$10 per gallon, and it helps in a wide range of apps, like removing metal, acid cleaning, just make sure you wear lab safety goggles (Ones with side sheild) and lab ro cleaning gloves (The long sleeve plastic or rubber ones)

[PKM]

I suspect the "multi-tool" in question is a UV light.

[Molten Boron]

Where's the "Best Answer" button?? Because you get it.

[itsthatsguy]

wow, secrets out... anyway most ppl would have figured that one out lol.

[Sigfodr]

I suspect you're probably pretty accurate on that one, which by his own definitions, is NOT a new invention.  The thing sounds like a variation on an already existing piece of technology used by law enforcement to gather crime scene evidence.  There is also already a device that allows you to prolong the life of pop, I remember seeing ones branded "pop saver", it was simply a replacement cap for the bottle which incorporated a small pump which you used to re-pressurize the bottle forcing lost CO2 back into the beverage restoring the fizz.

[itsthatsguy]

Yea teh ligth was a bit sketchy, But i do not use a pump, its more simple than that, i mean who wants to buy CO2 and pump it to 20+ psi in there soda, sounds liek work.

[Sigfodr]

You don't have to buy CO2 to repressurize. Here, this is what I was talking about <a href="http://www.spacesavers.com/fizzkeeper.html">www.spacesavers.com/fizzkeeper.html</a>. It works on the principle that everytime you open the bottle and close the bottle pressure is released. Over time, the CO2 that is dissolved in the beverage works it's way out and re-pressurizes the bottle, that's why it will always hiss whenever you open it. What this device does is it pressurizes the open space in the bottle with normal air filling up the area which the CO2 would normally release into. So you aren't adding more CO2 to it, just keeping the stuff that's already in the drink for a longer period of time.<br />

[itsthatsguy]

Ahh, i see now, but still, it invovles pumpign ir in, as you can imaien, towards the end fo the soda, the air space in the bottle would have multiplied, ylou'd have to pump over and over and over.

[Molten Boron]

Visions of exploding soda bottlees dance in my head.

[itsthatsguy]

Soda bottles explode at 120 PSI, (Mythbusters proved it lol) i think the pump might falil, but it woud take hours of pumping lol, aside from that my version never adds aything to the soda bottle.

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

i blew up a dry ice bomb a couple of times it was awsome 

                       "Dont try this at home unless you're on instructables"

[Molten Boron]

Then, I would buy your version. But you have to make sure that there is an attractive lady in your commercial.

[itsthatsguy]

lol

[itsthatsguy]

If only you could edit comments, my grammer wouldn't suck so much, i  meant
Pumping
air
imagine
of

 lol....

[waldosan]

you just need to slow down when you type, it solves a lot of problems. both me and my sister taught ourselves how to type, she ended up getting so good that she started typing faster than she thinks and now she has bad typing grammar. I however like to spend time writing stories so i take a little bit more time to say just about the same stuff. anyways it keeps me out of the deep stuff and most of the time keeps me from making an idiot of myself.

i actually have an idea to use the earths ionosphere as a giant photo-voltaic