How To Improvise With an Air Popper

mamanture · Post by **mamanture** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 9:26 am

the kind that pops popcorn but for some odd reason has lost its top and funnel? Without it - it's useless, unless you like to hear the delicate sound of ~crunch~ underfoot and eyeballing the little kernals everywhere. Frisky lil critters.

So what could I use instead of the top? I did a search online and it would seem that only tough, clear rigid plastic would work. No metals cause they would get too hot in the popping process and no soft plastics cause they would melt. I'm left with using part of another utensil. How do you cut, shape and glue clear rigid plastic once you find something suitable?

I know there are people who'd say to buy a new one, but it's not feasible - I'm totally out in the boonies and anyway I like to recycle stuff and use what I gots.

Your suggestions are blissfully appreciated. :)

mama

tisha2 · Post by **tisha2** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:41 pm

how about a clothes-dryer vent hose? it's already made to handle hot air. Just shape to fit, and bend over just like the top did to dump the goodness into a bowl.

just a thought...

i am right there with you on the reusing stuff - i HATE they way folks dump plastic in the trash (ie, landfills) like there is (literally) no tomorrow.

Lassen Forge · Post by **Lassen Forge** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 5:06 pm

If the metal gets hot you use an oven mitt to remove. I was thinking along the lines of a large funnel with a gooseneck to "shoot" the popcorn out of...

Depending on the type of unit you can also get the dremel and diamond bits out, find the appropriate glass bowl and put vent holes in it. no "shooter" effect but it would probably work all the same.

bb

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 6:40 am

I suggest taking an old easychair and affixing the popper to the back, possibly with a heatshield between it and the upholstery...Then run a length of aluminum vent hose from the popper to a bowl that you have also affixed to the chair, at comfortable arm's reach. In the deluxe version you add a power switch and a couple of mirrors so that from the comfort of the chair you can initiate the popping AND check its progress without getting up. Retrofitted cupholders hold dispensers for Buttery Liquid and salt, unless you're motivated to also construct a motorized salting mechanism. Other options include:

-Magic Fingers (Wire together a vast number of cheap cellphone "vibrate" motors (available from American Science and Surplus) and embed them in the upholstery.)

-Rotary MultiCon System- (Glue remote controls to a coffee can that you have mounted on a rod through the center of the bottom and lid and secured to the left or right arm of the chair...Simply rotate until the desired clicker is selected.)

Other more biologically necessary options can also be included...But this can only end in the creation of a gruesome Man/Chair, a hideous cyborg melding of lazy boy and LazyBoy devoid of any pleasurable sensations beyond those provided by Pop Secret and the Discover Channel.

Sheesh. I'm gonna go take a walk, while I still can.

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 6:42 am

I have NO CHOICE but to improvise with an air popper....I can't read sheet music.

tweetybird · Post by **tweetybird** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 3:53 pm

duct tape solves everything

Rabbi Dali Rick · Post by **Rabbi Dali Rick** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 7:42 am

Take it in the bathroom duct tape it to the wall and Voila you have a hand dryer. Duct tape it to the floor next to the toilet and Bada Bing yous got one of the Biddet things, (that's french you know)...

rebbily

tisha2 · Post by **tisha2** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 10:53 am

i believe a bidet shoots water...not air.

haughtily,
tisha2

Mozy bonz · Post by **Mozy bonz** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 11:44 am

spectabillis · Post by **spectabillis** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 12:22 pm

bathtub playtoy

Rabbi Dali Rick · Post by **Rabbi Dali Rick** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 2:43 pm

tisha2 wrote:i believe a bidet shoots water...not air.

Leave it up to the French to make everything I say in english sound completly different in French.

possibly,

the rebbi

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 6:00 pm

will fill a hot air balloon in 37 years.....a much better use....

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 6:02 pm

now I wonder what Rob would have to say about this question......oh Roooooooooooughbbbbbb???? where are you?????/

tisha2 · Post by **tisha2** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 11:01 am

cowboyangel wrote:will fill a hot air balloon in 37 years.....a much better use....

come now, if any of us needed to fill a hot air balloon, we have *much* better sources at our disposal around here, now don't we?

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 2:18 pm

ok ok ok I get it...

How To Improvise With an Air Popper

How To Improvise With an Air Popper

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