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99 cent super soaker sponge. uses ??
Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 12:35 pm
by steptoe
bought this sponge under impulse buy.
It came in a sealed platic wrapper aleady moist !! All the way from China too
About the size of a sharpening stone
It has got me why a sponge has to be sold in a wet state ?
No printed suggestions for use, just a graphic of a car and dash gauges.
It is a very closed cell sort of foam so no good for washing paintwork
I thought I'd used it to absorb the water leaks from my specialist installed windscreen some time back, (shoved under the dash somewhere) but have since fixed that problem when I installed my latest screen.
anyone got these
suggested uses ?
Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 12:48 pm
by Suba
Throwing at the missus on a hot summers day :P .
Mike.
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 6:13 pm
by Suby Wan Kenobi
You could use them as inner soles on some shoes that are too big for you.
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 7:57 pm
by tim_81coupe
BYB-style gearbox mount.
Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:35 am
by stinky
air filter element. spray it with k&n oil and voila!
Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:48 am
by fredsub
stinky wrote:air filter element. spray it with k&n oil and voila!
err, it'll crumble and go into the engine ?
best stuff for ad-hoc air-filter is that bubble foam stuff you get some times in packaging for PC mbs, or other electronic stuff..its usually black/grey.....works well as a prefilter to grab the main dirt too.
Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 2:49 pm
by stinky
I was joking
Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:02 pm
by Suby Wan Kenobi
A filter for the Air vent in your car?
Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:16 pm
by steptoe
As this sponge is sold 'wet' , I don't think it should be used for any sort of filtering uses.
more soaker uses I think , maybe a sanitary pad ? No . lets not go there...maybe it is suppose to work like a chamois ?
Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 10:25 pm
by tim_81coupe
Got a picture?
Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 2:29 pm
by steptoe
photo ?
no
never thought of that
been to Clints or the whorehouse lately ?
thats where I got it
picture this
rectangular block, 33mm high, 170mm long, 75mm wide, pale yellow, has about the sponginess of a marshmallow, wrapped in its wet state it weighs 96 grams. The moisture disappears from the bag into the sponge and vice versa (temp dependent) so maybe a rough thermometer !
time to charge up camera for a photo shoot
Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 5:17 pm
by AndrewT
Is the dampness just water? If it has a picture of a dashboard/gauges on the packet mabey it's impregnated with an Armour-All type of substance?
Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 6:41 pm
by Suby Wan Kenobi
If its wet then still use it in the vents but as a water air cooler for the inside
Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 9:14 am
by fredsub
would you trust anything that comes already "
moist" from China?
Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 1:38 pm
by steptoe
sorta why it not been opened. not sure of the origins of the moisture and whether it has been treated , or needs to be !!
Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 5:12 pm
by MUDRAT
First, you should cut the sponge into four pieces.
When you re-assemble your EA82t you should leave a piece of the sponge in each combustion chamber, so next time you crack a head the sponge will just absorb the water and you can keep on driving.
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 10:45 am
by steptoe
Nut this one out
The sponge takes up less than half a cubic litre of space, already moist in its packaging, opened and placed in 500 mls water it soaked up 400ml! and gained only an extra mm or two in each direction.
Now fully soaked it really looks in place on a cheeseboard with crackers and cheeseknife !
Pick the sponge up gently and water remains suspended in it and no drain out.
Where is Deane Hutton or Dr Karl when you need them ?