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Serving beverages from your Klein bottle

LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
edited 2013-09-12 22:55 in General Discussion
I wonder if this can be done gracefully, or if it is even worth attempting.

There is an outfit in Oakland, California that sells glass Klein bottles. They only mention the following, but they do sell a Klein Stein for the ultimate beer drinking experience.

http://www.kleinbottle.com/how_to_fill.htm

http://www.kleinbottle.com/

Comments

  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-09-11 02:31
    Brilliant.

    A bit pricey, I might have to settle for a klein ski hat and mobius scarf. It's going to be getting cold around here soon so I can justify that at least.
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2013-09-11 03:16
    You can knit your own Mobius scarf and save your money for a Klein Stein. Just buy the wool, a pair of knitting needles and ask the little old lady at the store how to to do a knit and a pearl stitich. Most knitting supply stores have beginner classes... and you might get to flirt with a lot of girls.

    Outside of taking tap dance lesson, I don't know of a better way to be the only male in amongst a lot of ladies. (Tap dance might offer younger more energtic gals.)

    After knitting the scarf, the hat should be very easy. It just takes a different set of needles that are attached together with something flexible to create a continous tube.

    But if you married, your spouse might become upset. But you will be well on your way to knitting your own socks for the rest of your life.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-09-11 03:29
    Strangely enough, Loopy, my friends and I were knitting our own woolly bobble hats to wear on cold fishing expeditions when I was 11 years old.

    I have long since forgotten how I did it. There came the time when boys would not bee seen dead knitting.

    I was therefore surprised to find a few years back that skiers and snowboarders were into knitting their own ski hats.
  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    edited 2013-09-11 04:42
    I'm reading this on my phone......

    On the small screen, 'tap dancing' looked like 'lap dancing' .... From there, the image in my head between the two in this thread really ruined my breakfast... No offense to any participant in this thread!

    :smile:
  • ReachReach Posts: 107
    edited 2013-09-11 04:44
    These look really cool but to clean them, well that almost seems impossible. If they were cheaper id get some for gifts.
  • Dr_AculaDr_Acula Posts: 5,484
    edited 2013-09-11 05:41
    These look really cool but to clean them, well that almost seems impossible.

    Theoretically, it is just a single surface, so it should be just one wipe?!
  • ctwardellctwardell Posts: 1,716
    edited 2013-09-11 07:00
    Oh, cool, there is even a BASIC Stamp involved...

    Look at the bottom of the following page:

    http://www.kleinbottle.com/sliced_klein_bottles.htm

    "Not shown is the honking 6 Amp regulated power supply and the Basic Stamp controller."

    C.W.
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2013-09-11 07:08
    Nice eye C.W. !
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2013-09-11 08:07
    Dr_Acula wrote: »
    Theoretically, it is just a single surface, so it should be just one wipe?!

    A wise guy....

    +++++++++++++
    I suggested a graphic of a Klein bottle for the Propeller 2 logo, but Ken didn't like the idea. Oh well....
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-09-11 09:21
    Dr_A,
    Theoretically, it is just a single surface, so it should be just one wipe?!
    As we used to say about crazy people in England "clean round the bend".
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2013-09-12 08:11
    mindrobots wrote: »
    I'm reading this on my phone......

    On the small screen, 'tap dancing' looked like 'lap dancing' .... From there, the image in my head between the two in this thread really ruined my breakfast... No offense to any participant in this thread!

    :smile:

    Hmmm. It seems like you might need a new pair of glasses. Or is it that your touchscreen is smugged up? FYI, I work very hard at avoiding typographic errors of that sort.

    @Heater
    You might start a fad up their in the icy north. If people want Klien Bottle Hats in quantity, I think that I could find a supplier to have hundreds knitted up on knitting machines in Taiwan.

    Very few people are aware that the rural hill people in Taiiwan have a very internationally competative knitting industry. It is pretty much a cooperative of some sort. And of course, it the wool is synthetic, Taiwan makes that as well.
  • ElectrodudeElectrodude Posts: 1,658
    edited 2013-09-12 13:30
    I found that website a few years ago and found it very amusing. You might also want to try serving your beverages in these. If your klein bottle breaks, they have a conditional unconditional guarantee, as well as a lifetime guarantee that you will live for your whole life!
  • David BDavid B Posts: 592
    edited 2013-09-12 13:31
    Cliff Stoll makes these bottles! The Cuckoo's Egg? Anyone read that book? What a varied career he's had.
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2013-09-12 13:35
    Heater. wrote: »
    As we used to say about crazy people in England "clean round the bend".
    I always thought it was "They shouldn't be running the country"
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2013-09-12 13:40
    Electrodude wrote: »
    I found that website a few years ago and found it very amusing. You might also want to try serving your beverages in these.
    They look like great fun for a joke, hand them out at a party along with a bottle of red wine :smile:
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-09-12 13:56
    skylight,

    Actually I have it wrong. The expression for crazy people was something like "completely harpic" if I remember correctly. "Harpic" was that bleach for cleaning your toilets which was advertised on TV as "cleans around the bend". Do they still have that?

    As for the government, no change there for decades. Totally harpic.
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2013-09-12 14:03
    Heater. wrote: »
    "Harpic" was that bleach for cleaning your toilets which was advertised on TV as "cleans around the bend". Do they still have that?
    Yes still going strong
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-09-12 14:10
    Oh good.

    I think it is time we applied a big dose of Harpic to the governments of the western world.
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2013-09-12 14:40
    Heater. wrote: »
    Oh good.

    I think it is time we applied a big dose of Harpic to the governments of the western world.
    Agreed it might help clean their acts up :smile:
  • W9GFOW9GFO Posts: 4,010
    edited 2013-09-12 15:22
    Heater. wrote: »
    Brilliant.

    A bit pricey, I might have to settle for a klein ski hat and mobius scarf. It's going to be getting cold around here soon so I can justify that at least.

    Print your own!

    http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:11976
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-09-12 15:30
    Actually, I think the Klein bottles we made out of cardboard back in school in the 70's were better looking that those 3D printed efforts.
  • W9GFOW9GFO Posts: 4,010
    edited 2013-09-12 15:35
    Heater. wrote: »
    Actually, I think the Klein bottles we made out of cardboard back in school in the 70's were better looking that those 3D printed efforts.

    Way to hurt my feelings man :(
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-09-12 15:50
    Oops, sorry were they yours?

    OK, whilst we are here. Those 3D printed versions would be way cool if there was a smooth flow of shape from the "flasky" looking part into the neck part. Like a wine bottle neck. And none of that flat bottom, also like a wine bottle. Smooth sexy curves all around. After all this is computer designed and 3D printed, surely there is no need for sharp edges and flat bottoms like our old cardboard versions.

    No hard feeling I hope.
  • W9GFOW9GFO Posts: 4,010
    edited 2013-09-12 16:30
    None at all. :-)

    Round bottoms are certainly possible but they require support. My version was specifically designed to not require any support material. Someday I will make another that is more sexy...
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2013-09-12 22:55
    I really want a Klein Bottle ski hat... ultimate cool. I may even knit my own.

    The glass bottles might do nicely for an award ceremony out there in Geekdom. You could have a nice message engraved or etched on the glass.

    +++++++++
    Martin Gardner of Scientific American fame wrote an article that explains how to build a Klien Bottle model out of modifying an ordinary letter envelope. Useful for students, but now quite the same as a real transparent glass bottle.

    See "The Colossal Book of Mathematics" by Martin Gardner to learn more.
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