Stupid Invention Ideas

[mrinnovation1]

"8 tracks is a bad day but you get to sit by yourself on the Subway".

At a Subway, you'd probably be sitting by yourself anyway!

Augustino's makes the best subs.

[Cusser]

Boxes and cases tools come in should be larger, so one can actually store such tool back in the box. Many won't fit because no one on this planet can get the electric cord wound small enough to go back in to close correctly.

Even with my cordless Milwaukee drill set (which I love), the charger's cord gets in the way and makes it tough to close the nice hard case. The other stuff fits fine in the plastic depressions.

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1970 VW (owned since 1972) and 1971 VW Convertible (owned since 1976), second owner of each. The '71 now has the 1835 engine, swapped from the '70. Second owner of each. 1988 Mazda B2200 truck, 1998 Frontier, 2014 Yukon, 2004 Frontier King Cab. All manual transmission except for the Yukon. http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=335294 http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=335297

[LAGrunthaner]

Agreed, at first I thought the cool Milwaukee drill set with carry case's were the best. I bought 8 for my classroom shop because they are durable for kids, but with very little time to clean up between class periods frustration ran deep. I ordered canvas tool bags and tossed the plastic carry cases. I did the same for my own home shop. I love canvas tool bags and now have one for every job at home. I was surprised that I can stack them easily.

Now Milwaukee has the proper containers, a canvas bag.
https://www.homedepot.com/pep/Milwaukee-M18-18V-Li...gwEALw_wcB

[oprn]

I believe we have discussed this before about a year ago, the dumb idea of programming an alarm into the dash of the newer VWs to go off at 4*C.

Well here we are as the weather transitions back and forth past 4* setting this thing off dinging and flashing everywhere we go. Sweet buggerall is happening to the roads at 4*!

Then all winter when the roads are frozen, snow covered and icy there are no alarms! Nothing! Until spring and the roads thaw out, become safe again then the thing goes off like church bells on Sunday morning.

Who the heck decided that 4*C was the magic number and why when water freezes at zero?
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Our cars get old, we get old but driving an old VW never gets old!

[Glenn]

[Abscate]

[oprn]

I get that bridge decks do have less thermal mass but they still don’t freeze until the air temperature drops to freezing or lower. The car is measuring air temperature and nothing happens until the air drops to zero C. Absolutely nothing! It’s one of the infallible things in nature, you can take it to the bank!

I will look into getting it changed or even deleted if that is possible.
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Our cars get old, we get old but driving an old VW never gets old!

[Who.Me?]

[baldessariclan]

[KTPhil]

A Prius owner in the UP posted years ago: "That Damn light came on last week and it tells me it's time to go south, like the geese, LOL"

Another called it the "move south" indicator.

I think that tripping temp has to do with formation of black ice, which can happen above freezing air temp.
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Current Fleet:
- '71 Fastback
- '69 Westfalia
Retired:
- '67 Beetle
- '65 Beetle (x2)
- '65 Bus
- '71 Squareback

[oprn]

The audacity of it all was driven home to me once again yesterday. For the last 5 weeks the temperatures have been hovering around the 1* to 6*C mark, bare dry roads, with the odd rain shower, good driving conditions really.

Ding - flash, ding - flash, ding - flash everywhere we went as the temperature went up and down a degree here and there.

Yesterday it dropped to between 0 and -1*C and snowed all day. We spent 7.5 hours on the road on a trip that normally should have been 4 max, cars and trucks in the ditches, traffic down to a bumper to bumper crawl at times on the open highway that normally sees 75 and 80 mph, ice, snow and slush everywhere.

Not one single ding or flash... all day long, both cars, the Jetta and the Golf!! We won't see or hear one now until the roads are all bare and dry and the crocuses are up about the end of March!

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Our cars get old, we get old but driving an old VW never gets old!

[mrinnovation1]

Dryvit! This could go to the top of the list.

[Heiferman]

Sombody made a sink drain filter that is made if silicone and was on Sharktank.. It is freakin sweet. But it does not filter coffee grounds and the small stuff I need filtered.
My idea is a screen filter (which is already made) but has a silicone seal around the outside the pushes in and prevents anything from running under the steel screen that we have now. Also has a little knob to pull it out.
It would be very cheap and simple and fit in nearly any North American kitchen sink.
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- 1973 Thing, 1970 Ghia, some LandCruisers and an old Ambulance

[Cusser]

[Cusser]

I had to purchase a new gas can today, my old steel one was leaking at the seam, and I was smart-enough to NOT try to solder it !!!

Of course the new gas can is plastic (OK) but the safety features built into its spout - required by the government - are ridiculous. After removing the plastic plug and attaching the spout (which has a press-in to unscrew it), one must press a red tab on the spout first and then press the spout tang to compress the spout for gasoline to flow. So of course it was impossible to tell how much gas was getting into my mower's tank, and some gasoline spilled. So in trying to make environmental and safe, the net result was a gasoline spill.

Does this make sense???? I think a cap and a funnel makes much more sense !! Or maybe I'll just cut off the end of the spout and use a rubber stopper or cork...
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1970 VW (owned since 1972) and 1971 VW Convertible (owned since 1976), second owner of each. The '71 now has the 1835 engine, swapped from the '70. Second owner of each. 1988 Mazda B2200 truck, 1998 Frontier, 2014 Yukon, 2004 Frontier King Cab. All manual transmission except for the Yukon. http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=335294 http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=335297

[67rustavenger]

[mrinnovation1]

Still doesn't prevent one from drinking it.

[Cusser]

[scottyrocks]

I just take the thing off and use a funnel.
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– D. Tartt, 'The Goldfinch'

[kenfolk]

I bought a bunch of old school filler necks off amazon and converted all of mine. So much better.
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78 Westy