[Greenbuilding] Spin dryer

[Rob Tom]

On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:10:24 -0400, Ben Pratt <prattb at uwstout.edu> wrote:

> The family i stayed with in france 10 years ago had a clothes
> spinner, but it was larger and a front-loader.

I have no idea what this "clothes spinner" gizmo looks like but I am  
familiar with washing machine tubs and dryer drums ... and bicycles. (You  
see where I'm going with this. Right ?)

People are always tossing out the carcases of washing machines and clothes  
dryers usually because the electrical components have failed.

Similarly, it seems that the pedalling public has the hots for mountain  
and hybrid bikes and the old-fashioned , skinny-tired 10 speed bikes are  
about as unfashionable as heepy headbands and discoduck necklaces and are  
cheap like borscht on the used bike market.

It certainly wouldn't take much to take an old 10 speed bike and the guts  
of an old washer or dryer, put the two together and get a very Green  
clothes-spinner/cardio workout device.

And if one spousal unit feels that they are doing more than their share of  
clothes-spinning, simple solution is to take two bikes and make a  
tandem-powered clothes-spinner.

Put a drain waste heat recovery GFX unit on each pedaller and ...



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