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Q5: What is the most unusual object you've managed to recycle into a make, and what did you make with it? #MakersHour

March 12, 2026 at 8:48:06 PM
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Q5: What is the most unusual object you've managed to recycle into a make, and what did you make with it? #MakersHour

Going back to the whole topic of "unusual" with the fact being most of the stuff I touch is not itself particularly unusual. (I'm more likely to make an unusual thing than make something out of a thing that is unusual...)

Unusual... recycle... I'll have to come back to this if anything pops into mind.

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A5 Damn, that's a hard question. Not sure. What's unusual to one person is normal for someone else. I have used dog chew toys as a source of rawhide for some leather working projects... That's certainly one of the weirder ones. Else I think mostly everything I use is kinda expected...

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Now that's one I haven't considered.

I do use a silicone 'lick mat' for slowing down dog feeding, as a textured and compartmented place to put screws and fastenings, and hot blobs of solder, at Repair Cafe. Cheaper than a proper mat.

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