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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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Bolted! Fulfillment Update

May 25, 2026 by David Malki !
Photo courtesy of backer Nicola!

The vast majority of Bolted! game shipments are already shipped, but I understand if you don’t have yours yet, who cares. Here’s a progress report:

Total orders | 1052
Surveys completed | 992
Fully shipped | 946

Incomplete surveys

Obviously, if I don’t have your shipping address, I can’t ship your game! Let me know if you are missing a survey link. As new responses come in, they are rapidly added to the shipping queue.

Orders containing certain add-ons

Some of the add-ons proved more popular than expected — which is lovely! But it meant I had to reprint some stickers, make all the individual comic prints, request a shipment of books from offsite storage, etc, etc. So, any orders which contain an out-of-stock item are still waiting to ship.

All that missing stuff, though, is en route to me at this very second! So those orders will be going out pretty dang soon!

Custom items

I’ve already been in touch directly with the backers who ordered custom collages! Those will be created (and sent to you) after all the other shipments are complete. I’m excited for those, they’ll be fun! My pleasant dessert after the hearty meal of all the other orders.

Anything wrong?

I’m very grateful to the few folks who’ve contacted me to report some kind of issue with their shipment! Thankfully, problems are rare, but when they do occur, I would like to solve them. Please don’t hesitate to send me an email (replying to your shipping confirmation works great) if there’s anything about your order I can correct.

Reviews & photos

On BoardGameGeek are highly appreciated!

Unless you hate the game! You are entitled to that opinion, but please send that review directly to me instead of telling anyone else, so I can eat it and bury it in the yard and watch it grow into a twisted, gnarled tree. Or whatever!


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