Ingenuity: Turning Mortar Shells Into Coffee Machines

Started by TehBorken, Nov 01 06 07:47

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TehBorken

But does the coffee taste like gunpowder....?
[hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"]In his workshop in Mekele, just 120 km from Ethiopia's border with Eritrea, Azmeraw Zeleke is [a href="vny!://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6102290.stm"]turning burnt-out shells into cylinders used in coffee machines[/a].

He uses old mortar shells, which stand about one metre high, to make his coffee machines. Most of the shells are left over from the 1998-2000 war between the two countries.

The workshop is made up of three quite small ramshackle rooms that lead from one to another with sunlight coming through the gaps, but it is a hive of activity for Mr Azmeraw and his six staff.

"The shells were dropped in Ethiopia during the war with Eritrea. They were dropped so people hid them in their homes and now they sell them," Mr Azmeraw says.

 
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Russ

Thats awesome!!

  I want one. No seriously I do. That would be something to have when people come over for coffee.
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Lise

So this is something that only a man would find interesting to set up in his living room?
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Russ

Well. Its either this, an engine being rebuilt in the living room, or a still? Which do you think is more acceptable, lol.
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