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What's your houses equivalent of a poop knife. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 years ago by SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I don't mean what you use to chop down your feces, but an object that you realized only your family has and people would raise their eyebrows at. Best if said object has a sole purpose.

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[–] raubarno@lemmy.ml 122 points 2 years ago (24 children)

Well, if it counts, we have a homemade potato grating machine from the Soviet times my grandfather has made because he was a genius and partly because of Soviet Union. It draws a lot of energy, emits a lot of noise (seriously). To turn on, it has two buttons, one for capacitor or something, another for the motor itself and, nowadays, I have no clue which one I should turn on first, left or right... It stands on three legs and weighs around 10 kg (old transformers were heavy). It produces good results, though, despite looking odd.

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Video please, internet stanger?

[–] raubarno@lemmy.ml 63 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Here you go, internet stranger: https://spectra.video/w/dre1z1tfm3KDupVCfi8MhS

No beer to power it up. It's 8:49 PM in Lithuania and my neighbours will be mad.

[–] raubarno@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Note: the capacitor says:

МБГО ¬2
20мкф ±10%
500в 1077
ОТК

Which means 20 micro-pharads capacity, rated for 500 volts.

EDIT: no markings on the motor.

EDIT2: apparently, these capacitors are still being sold.

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Awesome. Very Interesting. Thank you!

[–] raubarno@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

You're welcome :)

[–] DestroyMegacorps@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Interesting

[–] TalesFromTheKitchen@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

So cool! Thanks for sharing.

[–] case_when@feddit.uk 5 points 2 years ago

This made my day.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago

That’s SO COOL!

[–] Che_Donkey@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Awesome....you win todays internet! goodnight!

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