 About a week ago I made this it's Styrofoam bits and cement maybe by volume eight Styrofoam bits to one part cement ish somewhere in there I didn't really measure but it was just a test and it seems like it's strong enough to be useful. Now it took me a ridiculously long period of time to chew up this much Styrofoam with like a raspy file but this looks like it's promising enough that I want to make a some kind of fast Styrofoam chewer-upper machine thing and I'm thinking I can I don't have enough Styrofoam to do this yet but if I made one of these that was really big I could use that as a floating dock particularly if it was lined with a good layer of concrete that was reinforced with maybe some plastic netting or something something that would be fine in the water but I think that would make a really good floating dock or even just I don't know blocks for for building and stuff now I do kind of want to test this to see how strong it is I'm pretty sure I can break it with my bare hands. Oh yeah that was actually stronger than I was expecting I had to push on that pretty hard cool all right I want to make a machine thank what can chew up Styrofoam. The other obvious reason I want to do this I feel like this goes without saying but just anything where I can take garbage out of the garbage system and turn it into something useful is great because there's too much garbage in the world. My duck here is all anxious because he's waiting for his girlfriend to pop some eggs so he's hanging out with me today. I don't know what I'm gonna use for this so it's gonna start dark in here there's the file I used this is one of those rare occasions where I don't need stainless bearings so I can get my scrap ones out. Alright that's obviously too loose however if I take a piece of a slightly bigger pipe with a chunk cut out of it pretty good good enough for this. I found this in my junk pile not bad put something else on here later now I want this to have a fatter thing oh yeah about that thick wait a minute oh those bearings actually fit inside there is there any way that's advantageous I don't think so hold on a second those bearings fitting in here is advantageous because now this is lined up perfectly over this and if I screw a bunch of screws in it then I can pull the bearings out to where they should be and it'll be on the right spot oh Marble they asked me to kneel yeah behind me got me some good screws in here and I need to finish this kid car and get it out of my workshop so I have some space again a little bit short on these screws now because about a week ago some guys came by and said our propeller is slipping and we need to get home and they're about an hour away from home so I used a bunch of these screws to fix the propeller temporarily long enough for them to get home at least from a little short but that's okay it's worth it because they get to stay home with their families instead of being stuck out in the water somewhere so they work all right I got three of those hopefully those are going into the middle piece and if I pull this bearing out you shouldn't stay come on bearing get a grip son get a guard yeah put in the vise cool well looks like it should be something fancier than just a grinder wheel put a bunch more screws in there probably want more screws in that but I can put more in later boy it'd be easy to make a wood box and then the termites would eat it I can make a wood lid for a bucket keep that out of termite zone it's pouring rain outside so I can't get any wood from outside what have we got in here well there's this piece of wood I've got all this stuff on oh wait a minute right there that might be big enough the question remains if I'd known I was gonna need those screws so soon would I have still helped the guys in the boat I hope so hold on a second I should do it well if this works really well I can pop this up and put a drill on there let me see what I got here well maybe what the end piece might have gone in a little big well those are a little bit bigger than I want so maybe I should unscrew this piece of wood slide it closer in screw it back in just reduce that gap all right shrunk the gap on this side left that one the same that way I can do big chunks here little chunks here thank the bigger pieces but that's all right I think I might be able to do here hammer it there's my hammer they're pretty good something about them the incidental mess we all build a little thing around this oh yeah maybe I'll just get it off the floor when I'm done just sweep it up and put it that's not that hard to do any percent of it's getting in the bucket actually definitely more much fits in there yeah I think I need to do this over a tarp or garbage bag or something just around here so I can scoop it up at the end yeah and I'm not losing that much and it's all all the incidental pieces are just falling right around the bucket so I don't think it'll be that hard to keep it clean yeah I'm just gonna make a bunch right now this should go without saying but just in case this is dangerous if I touch that while it's spinning it will hurt my finger I trust myself to do this after years of you know working with table saws and band saws but I won't let my kids use this unless I put like some kind of box around this where you just drop the stuff in or something you don't have to put your fingers anywhere near it I'm mostly saying that just in case someone out there who doesn't have so much table saw experience makes one of these you got to be careful with your fingers or build a box around it so you can just drop the stuff in all right I've got most of a bucket of stuff now mix it with cement you know I was kind of concerned that that's those bits were gonna be like all over everything but they don't stick to things as bad as I thought I thought I was gonna be covered in them but it looks like they come off pretty well and they're not too hard to keep in one spot I'm not sure how to mix this without making a mess can I just mix it right in the bucket what do you think dude oh you don't want nothing to do with all right I think he's demonstrating how to mix the stuff if I just do that I'm not sure if that's gonna work doc I got some cement in here now I think it's about one part cement for six or seven parts styrofoam bits ish somewhere around there I didn't really measure to get some water I wanted to mix it up first so that I didn't end up with cement clumps so once it's wet it'll clump together looking about right back later so maybe I can find a huge amount of styrofoam which shouldn't be that hard because I know there's tons of it around and then I can make like a little area that has a tarp that'll kind of contain any bits and then I can make some big styrofoam stuff and why don't I just use foam concrete I wouldn't trust that to float for something like a floating dock also I have not yet made a fomer that's a whole separate project