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A model steamroller, fuelled by liquid or solid fuel, which comes with a large folding ironing board/table that it runs on.
Place item to be ironed on the table. Fuel up the steamroller and allow it to reach working temperature.
The steamroller runs round the table; waste steam from the propulsion
system is diverted into the front (perforated) roller to keep it hot and suitably steamy.
A mechanical "bump" detector ensures that when the steamroller reaches the rim at the edge of the board it reverses in a random direction and starts off again in a new one.
Actually does a really rubbish job of ironing clothes, but fun to watch.
Traction Iron
Traction_20Iron
illustrated and redundant, unless I'm missing something? [xenzag, Sep 23 2010, last modified Sep 25 2010]
Stanley Dryer
Stanley_20Dryer
Perhaps one of these [theircompetitor, Sep 25 2010]
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[+] You could do this battery-powered and just spray the clothes first. |
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No, it has to have the whole living-flame-and-steam-engine thing to be worth the trouble. |
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//Actually does a really rubbish job of ironing
clothes, but fun to watch.// |
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The Borg does steampunk??????? |
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//rubbish job of ironing clothes, but fun to watch.//
Hence, does a better job than a standard iron, which is
no fun at all, and therefore goes unused. [+]
(I think the //solid fuel// should be plutonium.) |
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+ power it with accidentally washed receipts! |
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Add a little road gang of convict labourers, to spread
the shirt flat... and ogle the girl washing her car (Cool
Hand Luke reference). |
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[xen], this is similar but not identical. There is no handle on the top, nor a remote control, it is entirely autonomous. |
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This just begs the question of why other small autonomous pieces of construction equipment can't fold clothing once its been steam rolled? |
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//[xen], this is similar but not identical// - ok, but it's essentially the same thing ie using a model steam roller to iron your clothes. You could have just added the remote control variation as an annotation to Traction Iron, but anyway.... |
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Re your tortoise idea [Ian Tindale] frustrating somehow. I really like it. |
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I picked up two bones for mine, despite spending hours working up an illustration for it..... such is the bakery. |
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Can I just point out that I think all of you are
underestimating the topological complexity of ironing a
shirt? |
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I have actually watched ironing being done, and it's a
completely baffling process. |
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[Maxwell_Buchannan], not content to argue that ironing is
interesting, asserts that it's interesting to watch someone
iron. At least if you equate "complex" and "baffling" with
"interesting." [MB] is it as good as cricket? |
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//[MB] is it as good as cricket?// |
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It's better. Things move. |
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What's more, it doesn't go on for three days, then end in a draw. Mind you, with ironing, about a quarter of the time, the shirt wins ... |
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True. Shirt bronzing, shirt silvering and shirt gilding
are far more advanced, possibly because of the
connotations of success and wealth associated with
them. |
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Would certainly un-suckify ironing a little bit. |
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The iron doesn't suck, it blows. |
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//What's more, it doesn't go on for three days, then
end in a draw.// |
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My ironing takes three days, then ends up in a
drawer. |
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I could be interested in one, [8th]. I have refused to
iron anything in the last 20 years. Anything to be
ironed has gone into the Chinese laundry and comes
back washed and ironed. |
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Next time I'm there I'll ask if they have one of these
steamrollers. I think it will be hilarious, just to hear
them trying to pronounce steamroller. |
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+ I don't know how I missed this one, but I really need a cotton blouse ironed!! |
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Bakery never ceases to surprise me.... I still maintain that this is redundant as it's essentially that which I posted 4 years ago. ie a miniature steam roller that irons clothes. Judge for yourself. |
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But, [xen] isn't yours a manually operated version? |
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I would suggest it's sufficiently different to be a
separate idea. A traction engine is substantially
different to a steamroller. |
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Well, the difference between a traction engine and a steamroller is pretty superficial in the context of the idea, but I would suggest that there is enough difference between the two ideas to justify their seperate and individual existences.
I hate ironing, by the way, and have taken a similar attitude to infidel except that, if something really, really needs ironing then I just go out and buy a new one instead. |
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[DrBob] I once inadvertantly bought a garment which was
supposed to be ironed. I discovered that, by repeated cycles
of machine-launder / tumble-dry, I could break its spirit. It
now not only won't hold a crease, it won't hold a wrinkle,
either. |
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Ironing is a pointless task, so getting an autonomous device to do it in an entertaining manner is truly inspired. Add steam to the mix and we have genius. |
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Whether the task itself is adequately performed is completely irrelevent. |
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Why do poeple got to such lengths to iron things flat, when the intention is to wear them on a human body, which is almost entiely devoid of flat surfaces (not counting the chests of size zero models)? |
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[High Five for mouseposture] |
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[xenzag] but I bunned both of the ideas!! I understand your dilemma, but life is full of close encounters! |
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I don't use or even own an iron (although my mother has one parked somewhere in my house) but this would be fab. (+) |
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Hmmm....how heavy would it be? Could I get it to roller my lawn or compress gravel paths etc.? |
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[marked-for-deletion] largely redundant with the linked idea "Traction iron" |
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