Cuban homemade tools

[Jon]

Some interesting stuff in this article here: Photo essay: The bizarre, brilliant, and useful inventions of Cuban DIY engineers.

A couple of my favorites:

Gravity engine starter for farm equipment, plus soda bottle crop irrigation system:



Soviet washing machine motor repurposed into: coconut shredder, key duplicator, grinding wheel, "shoe repair tool" (?)


Fans blades from old vinyl records: