Maxwell...
or don't max at all.
updated Feb 14, 2007
projects ...practical and not-so-practical
- All of my electric vehicles (I'm on
my fourth) can be seen at this page, My EVs.
- The Plywood Guy has his own page. Please visit this exercise
in the magic power of plywood and drywall screws. He crouches! He
stands! He stores potential
energy!
- I built an electric snow blower for
my electric tractor. The result is a 600-lb. Cordless Electric Snow Shovel. This converted electric tractor is now
disassembled. (It has been replaced by the ElecTrak tractor mentioned
next.)
- General Electric beat me to the
idea... but only by about 30 years. I have one of their ElecTrak E-15 tractors, with a snow thrower and a mower
deck. For use with the snow thrower, I built a "back porch" on the
thing to hold another six 6v bateries for added range and rear axle
weight.
- I was going to convert my late-70s
one-cylinder commuter, an HMV Freeway, to electric, but I couldn't bring myself to
adulterate such a rare vehicle (one of 700 ever made).
- Instead, I built the Commutamatic, my own version of a tilting- three wheeler
- (What's a tilting three-wheeler,
you may ask? I have prepared a thorough site about them called The Tilting
Three-Wheeler which should
explain things...)
- The Maxion
is an electric commuter vehicle which wasn't going to tilt... but now
this work-in-progress is becoming a TTW! There are pictures and a
running total of cost and time on the side.
- Then came the Trimaxion, an experiment in rear wheel steering. Bucky
Fuller said you can never know *less* after an experiment than you did
before, and he was right... rear wheel steering is no good.
- Then came the TriHy, hybrid three ways, and on three
wheels!
- All of my electric vehicles (I'm on
the fourth) can be seen at this page, My EVs.
In the realm of the personal...
- The last time you moved, did your
moving truck tip over on an interstate and block all traffic on a
holiday weekend and wreck a bunch of your belongings? Ours did! See a
few quick shots from Fox-TV's coverage of Our Fateful Moving Day.
- My brother's house was in the
Boston Globe on Thursday, June 11, 1998. The people who helped him
build it refer to it as the Ponderosa. The article in the Globe
is titled "True Grit." Anyway
you call it, my brother, his wife, and their children have built one
very fine, very fun house.
- My brother's house was in the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, too, almost a decade later. (February 4, 2007.) It was called "Nothing New Under The Sun."
- I want the Bumper Sticker
Compendium to grow and grow.
There are some incredibly funny bumper stickers to be seen there. Give
it a look, and by all means, if you have seen one that's not shown on
my list of over 1500 of them, let me know.
- The Microcar and Minicar Classic was a real kick, as usual.
- Goodbye to my latest pair of
work shoes.
scooters and
three-wheelers
I maintain a site called Max's Scooter Page. There you can:
Slightly "off-page" is a related
subject, a peculiar and wonderful subset
of three-wheelers, called Tilting Three Wheelers.
Your comments are always welcome.