How to Make a Rockerless Rocker - Neatorama

Apparently, you can make a rockerless rocker - all you need are two metal strips, wheels, a little Yankee ingenuity and Gandhi. Found at the always-entertaining Modern Mechanix.

Wait... ghandi in a rocker that rocks without rocking. I think my brain exploded.

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Nice. I was wondering what to do with my extra Gandhi.

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That's nice - a softish wheel to keep the noise down would be needed on hard floors.

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Ample W-D 40

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that's not gandhi. that's warren mitchell.

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Alright, I got Gandhi but I can't find the metal strips. Any ideas?

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I'd use a couple of springs from a car. Either one coil spring and just place it under the back or a pair of strips from a leaf-spring running backwards from the front leg.

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Okay, I don't actually think this is a rocking chair, I think this is an alpha test wheelchair.

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this is not a rocking chair, this is an alpha test for the first wheelchair, the beta test came along after the bicycle was inventented.

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"...and Ghandi"...lol!@

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When Ghandi was done fighting for Independence and civil rights...he joined the Rockerless Rocking League.

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D'oh should've been: "...fighting for India's Independence..."

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I ruined my last Gandhi - I cut him lengthwise instead of along the middle.

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Er, uhm, don't mean to pick, but...
Rockers are just arcs connecting the front & back legs on each side, so, well... Aren't the two front legs' feet really just very, very small rockers?
Er, semi-rockers?

See, now you're gonna hate the blog aggregator I came from...

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