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Gadget Freak Case #120: Super-Powered Salad Spinner
DN Staff
October 26, 2016
1 Min Read
Welcome to the water-fueled salad-spinner cake box. Here's a muscle-free salad spinner that works from the power of a sink faucet and rotates your salad greens faster than the manual version no matter how much muscle you put into it. Rick Crammond based his spinner on a design invented by Nikola Tesla using his CD Turbine. The turbine combines CDs or DVDs, their spindle case (or cake box as it's sometimes called) and a bunch of magnets. Using your faucet or garden hose, you can spin your greens at 1,000 rpm, giving you superbly dry greens in seconds.
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Amt | Part Description |
25 | CD's (or number to fit your spindle case) |
1 | CD spindle with cover (one with a thicker base works best) |
1 | Water nozzle |
1 | Hot-glue stick for plastics |
12 | .50 x .50 inch cylinder neodymium magnets |
132 | 1/32 LED inch thick x 3/8 neodymium magnets for magnetic disk spacers |
1 Salad spinner | |
Super Glue and Marine Goop | |
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