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Bicycle Washing Machine (slrpnk.net)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/18530084

I recall seeing elsewhere (I think the solarpunk subreddit?) a few years ago that someone made a non-electric washing machine using a bicycle. Are there any tutorials anywhere someone could recommend me? I’d love to try and make one someday.

Note: I'm new to Lemmy and mistakenly posted this under "meta." Still getting used to communities and figuring out the cross-posting thing!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I don't recall specifically bike-powered one, but there's a hand-crack model that made the news rounds a few years back, called the Divya. Might be a good starting point if you're looking to build or mod one:

https://www.thewashingmachineproject.org/divyawashingmachine

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Thanks for the links! Especially that second one! The Lehman's one is what I was trying to google before but couldn't find squat about it because I didn't know what it was called, lol.