How a drinking lucky bird works.

Clive, IPA is expensive on IoM.. I bought 5 litres off eBay a few weeks ago, about £13 including shipping to Northern Ireland (aka Europe).. Getting things shipped here can be a pain as well. might be worth looking into...

Gordo

The comments on flocking made me remember the term - I've been trying to figure out thin coatings for things like unglazed tile that are water-absorbent AND water-permeable AND soft (to the degree where there's no click of tile-on-tile or glass-on-tile or the like). The best I've found so far (not actually flocking) is stretching a specialized Tencel/Lyocel fiber that used to hold non-alcohol hand sanitizer across the surface to be quieted and made absorbent and securing with water-insolvent glue at a few points. It would be nicer to lie down a very thin coating that does a similar thing, with certain properties. I'll look further into permeable flocking, but do you know of any off the top of your head that will absorb *around* the point of contact of water as well as *into* the substrate? (And of course have a soft, flocked or rubberized feel to it.)\

I love these and I loved this video

Michael Thompson

They're not that deadly. The media whipped up the usual frenzy at some point. The worst they are likely to do if they break is stain a surface or damage anything plastic that they land on. In the UK you can buy metal gallon containers of the same solvent.

Big Clive

I've ordered one. Plus a solar prayer wheel too.

Big Clive

Your description made me smile :)

Erik Granlund

When I was a small child, I remember having those bubbly fairy lights for Christmas. If I remember correctly, the ones we had contained a very bad substance, and by the time I was about ten, Dad had tossed them. They can still be found in antique shoppes on the New England coast and I have resisted getting some, as they're "deadly".

Chuck Kirchner

I have one of these bird things on my shelf. My Son bought it for me a few years ago.

mikenco

A quick tour of ebay brought up "Buddhist Pray Scripture Music Machine with 48 Kind Buddha Music Song NEW Outdoor", a solar-powered buddha song contraption available in pink. Almost so I suspect they've made it especially for your channel.

I've been resisting buying a buddha box for a while. I'm guessing the ones with 50 "songs" are very short droning loops. I may give in and buy one.

Big Clive

The history is even more interesting MOTORS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_bird#History My parents had one on the bar at a the pub they ran back in the 1960s that got me interested in engineering things. My father then made me an "bottle diver" out of an elastic band and a BIC biro cap and paperclip hook in an old style Schweppes soda water bottle the one with the hard rubber top that had a rubber seal, in those days the bottle thread was on the inside, twist it closed and the diver sank . Clive I found this image I picked the one you might like https://www.agbarr.co.uk/media/257549/Internal-screw-cap.png Later in the 1970 I was given a diver bottle that had claws that opened to pick up treasure and drop it in a central basket inside the bottle. John

John Harrison

Huge drinky bird fan here! I've given away about a dozen of them over the years. I also keep a small pile of "Buddha Boxes" on hand to give out. (Search "Buddhist Buddha Pray Music" on eBay.) As for refrigeration, I think of the refrigerant as a sponge and the compressor squeezes the heat out of it. Have a swell day y'all!

B3