What are some things I can do with street sweeper bristles? I find these things all the time when walking my dog. I already know you can make crude lockpicks with them and have done that, but I'm looking for something more interesting.

>>2602209 (OP)

Lockpicks

What are they made from?

Aren't you a goood samaritan, cleaning up your neighbourhood like that.

they're a fairly springy steel

What are their rough dimensions, width, depth, length?

up to 9" long, .125" wide, 0.03125" thick

So around 230mm x 3mm x 0.8mm?

lock picks are the obvious option.

What about making a small grill?

>>2602209 (OP)

I use them as tines for kalimbas, mine look a bit different than yours tho.



I build weird instruments out of trash and broken instruments

now this actually sounds like a neat project. i'm not very musical myself, but i think i'll give it a go

Oh, you could trap the tines between two pieces of wood to make a crude pluckable instrument.

more ambitiously you could use them as a sort of scraper

>>2602209 (OP)

So THAT'S what those are.

I sometimes make mini chisels and hacksaw blades out of them. I also use them to mix into crucibles when I'm melting stuff. maybe you can use them for that too.

Came here to post this



This is a good idea, I've wanted to build a 3 key kalimba for a while. Like Am, G and F

>>2602209 (OP)

if you can bend them with pliers in any way and you have enough of them you can make armor eventually since it is springy steal as you say

ppl always say lockpicks but bristles aren't really wide enough to make a good hook by grinding unless you bend the tip somehow

How much heat would you need to bend something like that? would a candle or lighter do it?

i mean, candle or lighter would make it a little easier but i'd at least opt for a butane torch, like for crème brûlée. they're super thin so heating them up wouldn't take very much at all.

>a small grill

too thin

will warp

>>2602209 (OP)

Weld a bundle of them together and forge a knife. Or something.

make darts with fletching out of duct tape and a nut as weight near the sharpened end

>/diy/ lawn darts
