Remarkable
Pencil
(Adults don't try this at home)
:: WARNING! YOU ARE ABOUT TO READ TOP SECRET INFORMATION!! ANYTHING YOU
READ IS CONFIDENTIAL. WATCH OUT FOR ANY SUSPICIOUS LOOKING CUPS &
PLEASE PROCEED WITH EXTREME CAUTION ::
Ingredients:
- Recycled plastic cups (1 per pencil)
- Graphite (enough to fill the middle bit)
- 1 x pencil-making machine
- water-bath (cooling tank)
- Tim (he makes them)
- Secret ingredient (makes plastic
behave like wood)
- Sharpening machine
1. Collect as many
plastic cups as possible and stop them from going to landfill.
2. Wash off all the tea and coffee off
and shred them into tiny pieces.
3. Preheat pencil machine to 180oC (30
mins)
4. Mix some of the plastic cups into
the graphite and pour into the pencil machine.
5. Take the rest of the plastic cup
material and pour into the other side of the pencil machine. Watch closely
while all the material is melted (technical term: extruded) and brought
together to create one long pencil (this is another secret bit). Ensure
there is always a continuous length of pencil leaving the machine.
6. Allow the pencil to cool and harden as it passes through the
water-bath (cooling tank)
7. Cut long pencil into smaller standard
pencil size lengths.
8. Sharpen and leave until ready for
printing.
(Easy job Tim, the machine seems to do it
all for you.)
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