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Homemade hovercrafts + shuffleboard = shovercraft!

Get your motors running, put your safety helmet, ear protection and safety glasses on, steady your fire extinguishers and prop open your first aid kit... Now you're ready for he ultimate in diy sports - Shovercraft! Combining all the thrills of a personal hovercraft with the targeting challenges of shuffleboard, shovercraft is the ultimate in frictionless fun!

Shovercraft

Go download the instructions and make your own. I can't wait until people start posting their hovercrafts to the make flickr pool!

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Posted by: zedomax on December 1, 2006 at 2:00 PM

I like the first guy, he's hilarious, sounds like a pirate! :)

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Posted by: RSBohn on December 1, 2006 at 3:00 PM

Humans must be protected. They must go down the stairs. --shover robot

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Posted by: eccramer on December 1, 2006 at 6:34 PM

This is delicious, you should start a league of Shovercraft racing. Someday We'll have a movie "The Fast and the Frictionless: Seattle Drift"

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Posted by: StealthToilet1 on December 1, 2006 at 9:07 PM

shovercraft+pulse-jet engine=fast

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Posted by: yedinite on December 27, 2006 at 1:06 PM

I'm willing to bet Mr. Fight Club in the video doesn't have true Fight Club 'nads to get on a shovercraft behind a car on a tow rope.

If so, please video for America's funniest home video's....

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Posted by: yedinite on December 27, 2006 at 1:06 PM

I'm willing to bet Mr. Fight Club in the video doesn't have true Fight Club 'nads to get on a shovercraft behind a car on a tow rope.

If so, please video for America's funniest home video's....

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Posted by: yedinite on December 27, 2006 at 1:06 PM

I'm willing to bet Mr. Fight Club in the video doesn't have true Fight Club 'nads to get on a shovercraft behind a car on a tow rope.

If so, please video for America's funniest home video's....

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