Build Your Own Snow Machine

This is from the "so easy, why didn't I think of it" files.

Found this great little clip on making your own snow using only an air compressor, some tubing and a pressure washer. Might be a little late for this season, but this idea would probably work equally as well scaled down and applied to your deck or backyard in the summer for the kids to play in.

Things You Need

(from www.toolmonger.com) a great little piece on the Grip-Rite cap stapler. The cap stapler is one of those tools the world may try to tell you that you can live without -but just image how good it would look on the wall in the shop. From Toolmonger:

It drives 5/8″ leg 20-gauge 1/2″ crown staples — that’s a mouthful, isn’t it? — or brads with plastic caps in tandem. Staples and brads load into the center track just like any nail gun, and caps load into a separate adjacent track.

When you pull the trigger, the GRC-58 pushes a brad through a plastic cap, then nails the brad and cap assembly into your target. The plastic caps do a great job of holding down tar paper and such by evenly distributing pressure over a wider area than a standard brad or staple.

It weighs about 4 pounds, which isn’t bad considering that it’s pneumatic, and it comes complete with hard plastic carrying case, a bottle of tool oil, and air fittings.

Grip-Rite isn't the most famous brand on the market, but what it lacks in name it makes up for in price. They make a full line of staplers and compressors. (link)