How to make a mallet from milk jugs

[frauenfelder]

Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/04/24/how-to-make-a-mallet-from-milk.html

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[lava]

But does it work against zombies?

[Exonauts]

Milk-nir anyone? I’ll see myself out.

[pies]

@frauenfelder

from melted down plastic wood jugs

Give me some of your finest wood jugs, shopkeeper!

[hecep]

Weighty, plastic-headed mallets are actually quite good for ‘banging’ snugger-fitting IKEA stuff together. The tyranny of tight tolerances.

[Papasan]

I don’t like lactose in my mallets.

[willmore]

Quick, someone go check Mark, I think he might be having a stroke.

[anon24181555]

Throw in that white cutting board!

[hecep]

“How to make a mallet from milk jugs”

I have been known to very, very gently hammer jugs. No complaints… so far.

[Bobo]

Seems like it never really got liquid, and the way that it was getting packed in that mold, I wonder if there are non-sealed fissures running through that mallet head. The last thing I want in a mallet head would be for it to not be totally solid.

Is it possible to be a bit more adventurous with the temperatures and get a nice gooey liquid that can be poured with recycled HDPE?

[Amstrad]

I imagine you could get a better melt if you did like he mentioned at first and really chopped the pieces up into something finer. Though a higher melting temp might not hurt either (though its tough to say if it’ll just burn at that point instead)