Have you ever wondered how cigarettes can be used other than their intended purpose?
So, for today's homemade work, we need a bar 10 by 40 mm.
We expose the saw to 22.5 degrees, measure 7 blanks of 25 cm each from the inside and cut into a miter saw.
As a result, we got 7 blanks at an angle of 22.5 degrees.
Next, we measure and cut 8 blanks of 10 cm each at the same angle of 22.5 degrees.
Then from the resulting blanks we add an 8-sided polygon, and glue the blanks to each other using joiner's glue.
We perform the same procedure with segments 10 cm long, and add a small polygon in the middle.
In a couple of hours we get some steering wheel from BelAZ, but we will use it a little differently.
Before further manipulations, we grind both polygons with a grinder.
The next stage is painting. To do this, the author took a piece of the sliding door that he did not need from the sliding wardrobe, so as not to stain the new workbench with paints in the very first days. We will paint, as always, with white water-based acrylic paint.
After the first layer has dried, take a greasy drop of pearl enamel and paint the second continuous layer.
After the paint dries, manually clean the surface with sandpaper with 80th grain. After such processing, we get the following effect:
For comparison, the protected surface and below are not cleaned:
I think the result is obvious. Temporarily set aside the prepared polygons, turn the panel over with the clean side, which is without paint, and continue our experiments. To get a flat surface on the back, the master tried for the experiment to pour epoxy directly onto the panel.
The reverse side really turned out to be quite good, even and with a texture, but the fact is that even after oil treatment, the epoxy was very reluctant to separate from the panel. Have to come up with something else. Something else - it turned out to be an ordinary film for a greenhouse.
It is clear that when the epoxy hardens on the film, we get a texture that does not fit every detail. If we need to get a perfectly flat surface, then it would be more logical to use plexiglass or ordinary glass. But since the master had neither one nor the other, and it was too lazy to order, we use the film.Smear the back side of the polygons with transparent glue, and glue them to the film. We evenly position the central polygon relative to the outer one and leave it to dry for about 30 minutes.
After drying, we pass to the most interesting moment. The heart of our homemade product will be bottles of whiskey in the amount of 4 pieces, and closed, there is no setup, only a natural product.
And ordinary cigarettes. The author himself does not smoke, so he took the cheapest.
We place the bottles with a cross between two polygons, and between the bottles of cigarettes we put Roman numbers.
Most likely the Romans will not really like such a figure of "8", but in order to save space, I had to do so. We expose all the numbers on the line to make it beautiful.
Glue each cigarette to a couple of points of super-glue to the film so that when pouring with epoxy resin, our numbers do not creep. Pour tobacco into the central part of the inner rectangle. It took about 10 cigarettes to fill the entire internal area.
Let's trim it a bit and go to the stage of mixing the epoxy. Well, everything is standard here - epoxy, hardener and mix. To fill the entire area, it took 5 tubes of 280 g of resin, and the author then added another tube additionally. That is, in total 6 tubes turned out.
The resin is mixed. Next, gently fill the entire drawing, without getting on cigarettes and bottles with whiskey. So that the resin spreads better on the film, we help it with a plastic knife. And where there is not enough resin, add it with a syringe. Also do not forget to shed the central part, which is with tobacco.
Gently remove the air bubbles with a lighter, and try not to light a single cigarette.
Arriving at the workshop the next day, the author saw a frozen knife in the remains of epoxy. He decided not to throw the whole thing away, but to leave the knife as a souvenir. Moreover, the color of the resin and the color of the knife suit each other perfectly.
It is easy enough to separate the film from the resin, put our watch on a workbench, and using the tape measure we find the center.
Then we take a screwdriver and drill an 8 mm hole.
The time on our watches will be shown by the Chinese movement with large red hands.
We fix the mechanism to the clock, set the hands. And at this stage, everything.
As a result, we got a big cool transparent watch that shows exactly when and how many cigarettes you need to smoke, and when you need to drink. But something tells you, if you strictly follow the recommendations of these hours, you can not stretch for a long time. By the way, this homemade product has a supply of alcohol, as they say, on a rainy day. As we can see, in principle, the texture of the package fits pretty well into the overall concept of the watch. But still for the future, you can try with glass or plexiglass to get something more transparent.
In the dark, the watch looks like this:
You can get confused and attach a backlight on the back of the watch, but this is somehow another time.
Thank you for attention. See you soon!
Video: