Fantasy Objects
- Left handed monkey wrench
- Shoreline - 30 meters of shoreline
- Spray de-ionizer - A can of spray de-ionizer used to create a conducting path for the
- discharge of static electricity
- Smoke shifter
- Brass magnet - For example, in one instance, one co-op was told to go get a "brass magnet" that was needed to get a part out of a plating solution tank. As can be imagined, a wild goose chase ensued.
- Spaghetti tree - The subject of a BBC tv April Fools special.
- Liquid Magnets - Up on the top shelf in the back room, you will find a small jar of Liquid Magnets. I find it works better than glue for holding pieces of metal together.
- Piston return spring - Would someone please go fetch me a piston return spring?
- Turn signal return-nut - How about a turn signal return-nut?
- Staple gun attachments - Also could you bring me the staple gun, but I don't need the staples, get the thumb tack and Paper clip attachments, which work with the staple gun, out if that large closet downstairs.
- Board stretcher - When I used to work for a construction company (in my laboring days) we used to send the new guy for the "Board stretcher". Statements like "Yea, it's orange, about 2 feet long, on one of the bottom shelves on the van" would keep him looking for what seemed like hours!
- Bacon stretcher - Especially useful on camp outs when the food supply gets low.
- Dehydrated water - When I used to work as a dishwasher in a small Italian Restaurant we would always send the new employees to the store room for a can of dehydrated water.
- Wire straightner - Needed when you don't want the rushing electrons to weaken the wire at sharp bends and kinks; they might begin to leak out of the wire at the weak points causing untold losses
- Pokka-dot paint - Yea, the one with the pink and blue pokka-dots.
- Striped paint - Be sure to get the white paint with the black stripes and not the black paint with white stripes.
- Clock reverser - A clock reverser for clocks that begin to run counter clockwise also used for sun dials that have gotten out of adjustment
- Gravity shield - To shield gravitational force and make things lighter.
- FTL Engine - A faster than light engine
- Neutronium - A cc of neutronium masses about 10^14 grams, that is it weighs over 100 million tons near the Earth's surface
- Superfluid hydrogen - Moleculear hydrogen in the ortho state, when spins are opposite, does act like Bosons but the transition to the superfluid state may take place below 1 picoKelvin, if at all.
- Kryptonite - Ah la, Superman.
- Thermal battery - The thermal battery stores cold, to be used when the air conditioning goes out.
- Four dimensional Klein bottle - A two-liter four dimensional Klein bottle, and make sure that none of the surfaces intersect
- Sine waver - A sine waver, to put the proper curves back in sines that have accidentally gotten staightened out (with a wire straightener?)
- DC Transformer - A DC Transformer can actually be made using superconductors
- Tachyon generator - produces particles that travel at super luminal speeds; used for near instantanious communication with people in other galaxies.
- Negative resistor - Used as a voltage amplifier, the opposite of a normal resistor that reduces voltage when a current flows through it
- Magnetic monopole - Physicists have spend millions of dollars over the past two decades looking fo evidence of the magnetic monopole.
- Hyperon accelerator - Used in dragsters to increase tire friction so they can accelerate faster.