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Picture this. You are driving along on a perfect day with the top down on your Jeep Wrangler. Suddenly, Zombie Butterfly’s are attacking you from above! The horror!

Inverter Mounting

By complete coincidence, abandoned on the side of the road you happen to see the zombie butterflies sworn enemy, the Wet-Dry Vac! But how are you going to power it? Luckily you have just installed a brand new Black and Decker 1000 Watt Power Inverter in your jeep! You break out the flamethrower attachment on the Wet-Dry Vac and you go to town on the tiny winged brain munchers! After you have dispatched with the insects of doom, you want to keep the life saving wet-dry vac but you cant fit it in the jeep! But then you remember that you did away with those silly screw things and used magnets to hold down your 1000 watts of instantaneous butterfly dispatching power! You pop it off the floor and you stick it to the side of the trunk!

It just so happens I have installed just such an inverter in my Jeep! I can sleep and drive easier now that I don’t have to worry about those damned zombie butterflies any longer! I used eight N42 plastic coated magnets to mount it to my jeep. It can be moved to anywhere the wires will reach. I ran 2 Gauge wire from the battery, through the fully boxed jeep frame, to the trunk. Even those vampire grasshoppers are shaking in there boots now.

I have been putting together the necessary parts for making carbonated fruit salad. It is exactly what it sounds like. A friend of mine named Victor White turned me on to this idea a couple years back. You make a pressure chamber out of large, pressure rated PVC tubing. Keep in mind that it will have to fit into the refrigerator. Then you add all sorts of fruit. Things with skins like key limes and oranges are fun if you leave the skins on. They tend to explode a bit when you bite into them. You then have two options to carbonate it. You can either just pressurize it with a tank of CO2 or add dry ice. Either way, you want the tank to maintain around 3/4 of the maximal operating pressure of the PVC and PVC fittings you are using. Always let any PVC cement and primer completely set before pressure testing the chamber. If you are using dry ice you HAVE to set up a regulator so it will dump any CO2 beyond your PVC’s limits or you are potentially making a PVC shrapnel bomb with a fruity after math. An emergency pressure relief valve is a good idea as well for good measure. If all goes well, you will have a deliciously fizzy fruit salad after a night in the fridge. I will put up pictures of my setup soon.

As always, do all of this at your own risk. Your safety is your responsibility, not mine.