Do you want to send a postcard to a closeted trans person, but you feel bad about having to use their deadname?
Are you making props for a ttrpg game or for an escape room mayhaps?
Are you in a secret romantic relationship no one must know about?
I can't be the first one to figure this out: if you combine friction-erasable pens and the good ol' lemon juice or milk ink trick, you can not only write a message in invisible ink, but also write something on top that'll disappear to reveal the secret writing underneath. So basically, you can give someone an innocent-looking letter, and they can make the innocent text disappear and a secret letter will appear underneath it!
Here's what you'll need:
A piece of parchment paper (optional)
The paper you want to write on
Lemon juice or milk (i used lemon juice)
A dip pen (but something like a toothpick will work in a pinch)
Erasable pens (the kind that erases with friction, for instance Pilot FriXion pens)
The recipient needs to have some parchment paper and a way to heat up the letter: either an iron (recommended), a hot lightbulb, oven, or a candle or lighter. A radiator or body heat will not be hot enough.
Step 1: Write your secret message using lemon juice or milk as ink. Use a dip pen, preferably one with a nib that won't scratch the paper. Dipping a toothpick in the 'ink' will work in a pinch, but it'll definitely take longer.
Since the 'ink' is hard to see, you might occasionally run out of ink without noticing. Tilt the paper to check that every letter is wet.
Step 2: Wait until your writing is dry. Lemon juice will dry slightly shiny, but not wet-looking.
Step 3: Write your visible message. The secret message will not be 100% invisible so be sure to cover it up with your writing to the best of your abilities. Don't worry about the visible ink interfering with your secret message. The erasable ink will disappear completely once your recipient gets your letter.
Step 4: Send your letter or hand off your prop. Be sure to tell the recipient exactly what to do with it. You might want to include some parchment paper in your envelope in case the recipient doesn't have any, although it might make people suspect shenanigans are afoot. Step 5 is for the recipient to do.
Step 5: Now the letter needs to be heated up. The best method is to iron it, but if that's not an option it's time to get creative. It's preferable not to use an open flame. Options would be a hot lightbulb or an oven (you can find instructions on how to reveal milk or lemon juice ink in the oven online). If that's off the table you can use a flame, but be very very careful! Start very high above the flame, and get lower if it's not hot enough. Be sure to have a bowl of water nearby in case the paper catches on fire. Do not let the paper catch on fire!!
If you want to iron the letter but don't want to be caught doing so, you might be able to conceal it by putting it in the pocket of a garment. Make it one you can iron on the medium or high setting.
As you heat up the letter, the visible ink will disappear first before the secret message is finally revealed. You might need to use the medium or high temperature setting to reveal the invisible text.
I folded the parchment paper back for these pictures but you will of course iron the letter while it's sandwiched between it.
And you're done! You can now read the secret text.
Welcome to #FridayFucksorSucks! It's a weekly game where we all discuss if a gun fucks, or if it sucks. This week it's the Landstad Automatic Revolver, a revolver with a magazine. The magazine was also the left grip and fed the bottom chamber of a flat cylinder that rotated 180 degrees.
The revolver was chambered in 7.65 Nagant, a now defunct round and these images come from the first model built by Halvard Landstadin 1900. It went into military trials at 1901 with terrible outcomes it failed basically every test it was presented with outside of the ones testing the ballistics of the cartridge they already knew to be good.
The cylinder was flat, and is shown here open and rotating. The bottom chamber would be fed a new round by the cycling action.
The rear of the revolver had a slide that would pull back and cycle the weapon, ejecting the current round and pushing the next round from the magazine into the cylinder. It was wildly complicated and tended to lock up when shot with any speed..
The original patent drawing from 1899. With a six shot magazine the entire system could possibly be "max loaded" with eight rounds but, assuming the prototype functions as the original drawings describe, doing so would have been wildly dangerous with a floating firing pin and no safety. Using it as intended, however, the safest max loading would be seven rounds - six rounds and an additional seventh round in the double action/bottom chamber.
Let me know whether you think this fucks or sucks! Is it a beautiful space revolver? Is it an abandoned failed prototype with no real use case? Is it cool? Is it weird? Let me know!
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just rescued a Method soap bottle from being thrown out. I've seen Jodi use these as lightbulbs for a footlight prop, because it has a nice "bulb" shape.
