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Easy Step-by-Step Instruction List — Utterly Foolproof
Home-Build a Potato Injector
[[Picture of Potato Injector – It’s got a crank, a needle, some faded potatoes in the background, and a picture of it being injected into some guys arm]]

Start – Time: A Weekend – Difficulty Moderate

Everyone has experienced trouble related to insufficient potato consumption. But how to make time for the labor involved in regular kitchen preparation? With the Potato Injector, the time for fretting is past. Using surgical-grade tubing, the Injector pipes pulped potato nectar into your body intravenously.

(1) Prepare your whittling tools. A good sharp chisel is of first importance in this work. Add to your kit an oilstone and strop. Place a few drops of oil on the stone and grind your blade upon its coarse side, then strop to remove the burr.

(2) Carve the necessary implements from a piece of dry cordwood (Fig. 1). Always try the wood before cutting into it, to ascertain which way the grain runs. In clear basswood it is usually quite straight, but sometimes it runs at a slight angle.
[[Picture of a hand crank attached to a cylinder]]

(3) Assemble the parts (Fig. 2) If you have carved them correctly they will go together in a very intuitive fashion. Some have reported shock at not landing upon this design independently, so simple and clear is it to create and build.
[[Abstruse depiction of a hand putting some sort of ring on a cylinder thing with a flared end]]

(4) Peel all potatoes (Fig. 3) before inserting into the injector. Potato-skins will clog the needle.
[[Picture of someone peeling a potato]]

(5) Tie off arm above the elbow and tap to make the basilic vein bulge. Daub with iodine and give the needle-crank three full turns.

(6) Once needle has seating, use foot pedal to advance nectar at a rate of one pint per minute.

{{alt-text: TROUBLESHOOTING: The injector becomes clogged after veinous insertion. SOLUTION: Pump foot-pedal vigorously. Potato will resume flowing.}}

The Tinkerer’s Handbook, Page 3 (of 8) transcribed by in

Easy Step-by-Step Instruction List — Utterly Foolproof
Home-Build a Potato Injector
[[Picture of Potato Injector – It’s got a crank, a needle, some faded potatoes in the background, and a picture of it being injected into some guys arm]]

Start – Time: A Weekend – Difficulty Moderate

Everyone has experienced trouble related to insufficient potato consumption. But how to make time for the labor involved in regular kitchen preparation? With the Potato Injector, the time for fretting is past. Using surgical-grade tubing, the Injector pipes pulped potato nectar into your body intravenously.

(1) Prepare your whittling tools. A good sharp chisel is of first importance in this work. Add to your kit an oilstone and strop. Place a few drops of oil on the stone and grind your blade upon its coarse side, then strop to remove the burr.

(2) Carve the necessary implements from a piece of dry cordwood (Fig. 1). Always try the wood before cutting into it, to ascertain which way the grain runs. In clear basswood it is usually quite straight, but sometimes it runs at a slight angle.
[[Picture of a hand crank attached to a cylinder]]

(3) Assemble the parts (Fig. 2) If you have carved them correctly they will go together in a very intuitive fashion. Some have reported shock at not landing upon this design independently, so simple and clear is it to create and build.
[[Abstruse depiction of a hand putting some sort of ring on a cylinder thing with a flared end]]

(4) Peel all potatoes (Fig. 3) before inserting into the injector. Potato-skins will clog the needle.
[[Picture of someone peeling a potato]]

(5) Tie off arm above the elbow and tap to make the basilic vein bulge. Daub with iodine and give the needle-crank three full turns.

(6) Once needle has seating, use foot pedal to advance nectar at a rate of one pint per minute.

{{alt-text: TROUBLESHOOTING: The injector becomes clogged after veinous insertion. SOLUTION: Pump foot-pedal vigorously. Potato will resume flowing.}}

The Tinkerer’s Handbook, Page 3 (of 8) transcribed by in

Easy Step-by-Step Instruction List -- Utterly Foolproof
Home-Build a Potato Injector
[[Picture of Potato Injector - It's got a crank, a needle, some faded potatoes in the background, and a picture of it being injected into some guys arm]]

Start - Time: A Weekend - Difficulty Moderate

Everyone has experienced trouble related to insufficient potato consumption. But how to make time for the labor involved in regular kitchen preparation? With the Potato Injector, the time for fretting is past. Using surgical-grade tubing, the Injector pipes pulped potato nectar into your body intravenously.

(1) Prepare your whittling tools. A good sharp chisel is of first importance in this work. Add to your kit an oilstone and strop. Place a few drops of oil on the stone and grind your blade upon its coarse side, then strop to remove the burr.

(2) Carve the necessary implements from a piece of dry cordwood (Fig. 1). Always try the wood before cutting into it, to ascertain which way the grain runs. In clear basswood it is usually quite straight, but sometimes it runs at a slight angle.
[[Picture of a hand crank attached to a cylinder]]

(3) Assemble the parts (Fig. 2) If you have carved them correctly they will go together in a very intuitive fashion. Some have reported shock at not landing upon this design independently, so simple and clear is it to create and build.
[[Abstruse depiction of a hand putting some sort of ring on a cylinder thing with a flared end]]

(4) Peel all potatoes (Fig. 3) before inserting into the injector. Potato-skins will clog the needle.
[[Picture of someone peeling a potato]]

(5) Tie off arm above the elbow and tap to make the basilic vein bulge. Daub with iodine and give the needle-crank three full turns.

(6) Once needle has seating, use foot pedal to advance nectar at a rate of one pint per minute.

{{alt-text: TROUBLESHOOTING: The injector becomes clogged after veinous insertion. SOLUTION: Pump foot-pedal vigorously. Potato will resume flowing.}}

TROUBLESHOOTING: The injector becomes clogged after veinous insertion. SOLUTION: Pump foot-pedal vigorously. Potato will resume flowing.

The Tinkerer’s Handbook, Page 3 (of 8)

  — April 28th, 2011

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New ways to get Bolted!

July 24, 2026 by David Malki !

In addition to buying things directly from me, the normal way, my game Bolted! is also now available on Amazon dot com.

On that famous website, you can also get the Creature-Crafting Magnets Set, which is made of the same artwork from the game, but is just a weird little trinket (not a playable game).

My kiddo made the elaborate version below to show off just how many magnets you get in the set (it’s 150 pieces in all — this isn’t even all of them).

Also now on Amazon is my set of Multi-Purpose Greeting Cards — a full dozen cards with envelopes in a fancy, unbranded, foil-stamped box!

Event alert!

I’ll also be showing off Bolted! at Greenwood Games, an event in Seattle this Saturday:

Greenwood Games is a free, all-ages community game event that invites players to spend the afternoon walking Greenwood Avenue from 65th to 80th, collecting clues, cracking puzzles, and discovering games made right here in Washington.

Think of it as Pride Hop, ArtWalk, and the Gumshoe all rolled into one,  except the whole thing is built around games and puzzles.​

Local game designers will be set up at different places along Greenwood Avenue in Phinney Ridge (near Ballard). My specific spot will be the “Holy Mountain Phinney Ridge Taproom”. All the information about all the different games & venues is on the website!

(If you’re in Seattle generally but not free tomorrow, Bolted! is also stocked at Blue Highway Games in Queen Anne.)

Next week, I’ll be at Gen Con! I personally will be hanging with my buddy Sam Logan at BFE Webcomics, booth #1217… but I have it on good authority that copies of Bolted! will be available at the CRWN Studios booth, #2549.

Visit one booth! Then the other! The order…is up to you.


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