Back during the 2009 election season, I chaired a citizen's group that put an initiative on our local ballot (we kicked their butts, 66% to 33%).
It leaves me with an interesting problem -- I've got dozens of campaign signs in various sizes made of good, sturdy Coroplast (it's like corrugated cardboard, except in plastic sheeting). Though they'd be perfect for building a shantytown on the outskirts of Rio, I can't really think of anything constructive to do with them here. They make GREAT target backing for shooting, but I've got several lifetimes worth of 'em if that's all I can think of...
Any bright ideas?
I think you should build a fort out of them
:)
Some guys like to make little tail sections for their recumbant bicycles out of it.
(http://www.recumbents.com/wisil/tailbox/barracuda-tailbox-3.jpg)
I once tried to make a tiny evap cooler for my garage out of the stuff. I called it "swampy". Didn't work so well and had a minor flood in the garage. :( [laugh]
Make oil catch pans for the shop? Parts holders? Stack 'em together for an archery target?
Perhaps a local church/school/boy's club/girl's club/YMCA/YWCA could use them for their own signs, pasting something over them.
Or maybe they could use 'em for art projects?
Seriously you guys. . .
how is a fort not at the top of your lists
Hang glider.
Kayak.
Sailboat (burn it).
Wait - You got snow up there, right? How about a GIANT toboggan! [thumbsup]
I say one of those crazy things that they push off a bridge for the Red Bull deal?
alot of people build RC airplanes out of that stuff
It's recyclable, send it in with your plastic or find a recycle center.
or make a huge kick ass star destroyer crashing into a santa outside your house.
Quote from: metallimonster on December 15, 2009, 08:30:46 AM
I say one of those crazy things that they push off a bridge for the Red Bull deal?
A wife?
In architecture school a bunch of friends built a gigantic digital vagina out of coroplast...
My granite guys use it for templates. Cut into 3-4" wide strips x 8' and hot glued. Works great!
Coroplast makes the best flooring for pet cages.
Bet you didn't know that. ;)
Think local!
Contact Anthony Brown at the Ecosa Institute (http://www.ecosainstitute.org/about-ecosa/contacting-ecosa.html) (architecture school) or Mary Hoadly at Arcosanti (http://www.arcosanti.org/people/contact.html) (in Cordes Jct) and see if either of them could put them to good use.
Acrosanti may even be able to arrange a pick up. [thumbsup]
After much consideration so far I'm liking the hang glider suggestion best. With a fort to house it when not in use of course. Then again, I did try to make a hang glider out of a tobbogan once when I was a kid. True story.
Sorry, just skipped past this thread title and thought.
Cloropast more like Boropast!