There Is a Gadget for This in the Specialized Tools Subreddit.
In honor of Analog Week here at Lifehacker, let’s explore a subreddit that features devices that do very specific things: r / SpecializedTools . The tools presented in it will make you want to pursue a hobby or a career so that you have a reason to buy them, such as driving a semi-trailer truck so you can clear snow from the top , or making huge stacks of toast with this efficient butter spreader. … And some of them, like this semi-automatic hammer and this motorcycle cover , really come in handy for everyday tasks. You will need them to save time after you spend all day looking through all the GIFs and videos of these mono. Here are our favorites.
Home tools
- Use a pickle strainer to pull pickles out of the jar without a fork or wet fingers.
- The manual coin sorter shakes out coins of each denomination to a different level.
- The magnetic window washer wipes both sides of the window at the same time .
- The take-up tube wringer pulls all the sticky mass out of the paint tube.
- An adult can help a young child cut paper with a two-handed training scissors .
- At Lifehacker, we shouldn’t be fond of kitchen chores, but the miniature rice ball maker looks funny.
Professional tools
- Automatic honey dispenser is steampunk wood carving. Woodpunk.
- If you’ve been watching Salt Fat Acid Heat , you might recognize this olive harvester that wraps around an olive tree and shakes it.
- These supports and wedges line the floor tile.
- The bowling lane polisher is similar to the efficient Roomba.
- This movable cart helps carry boxes up the stairs, and this handle allows you to carry large wooden planks or other flat items.
- Some tools use surprisingly simple technology to accomplish a task. This analog tachometer measures the frequency of rotation of the engine using its oscillation.
- The animal ‘s artificial uterus looks bizarre; This is a liquid-filled incubator for premature lambs.
Silly tools
- The automatic paper airplane gun folds and fires its own paper airplanes. Someone needs to put ten of these machines on a golf cart converted to an aircraft carrier.
- The spaghetti straightener seems to be made forMarcel Duchamp .
- A homemade nail puller is the most time consuming job anyone has ever done to make the back of a hammer.
Homemade tools
- The ping pong ball collector will clean up the messy playroom. It’s a small trash can screwed onto a broomstick with a cut out bottom and a few rubber bands tied through the hole.
- This four-person log saw was clearly built in a workshop. It looks so dangerous!
- A homemade humane mousetrap dumps mice into a bucket.
- One editor published his grandfather’s homemade avocado picker , and it turns out that many grandfathers built similar tree pickers – mostly a hook and bucket on a pole.
- This is a bridge … for live salmon.
If you like this subreddit, try r / redneckengineering , r / Mechanical_gifs, and r / EngineeringPorn .