MadDog Mike's Platterful of Pupule - Phineas' Steam Powered Wheelchair - Other Crafts

M MadDogMike Grand Member (8 years) The Anvil of the Sun Joined: Mar 30, 2008 Posts: 11247	M MadDogMike Posted posted on Sat, Nov 29, 2025 5:40 PM in reply to danlovestikis Wendy and hang10tiki, thank you. New project time. Many of you know my friend Phineas. He is getting kinda old, 205 years to be exact, and his knees aren't what they were in the 19th Century. So I'm working on a steam powered Gilligan's Island style remote control wheelchair for him. I started with a kid's Jeep that I picked up for 20 bucks not working. It has both the ability for a kid to drive it or (the part I was interested in) for an adult to drive it with a remote control. I charged the battery and cleaned up various contacts and got it running. I was hoping to strip it down to a floor pan somewhat like an old VW Bug. This is the pile of parts that I took off. This is what's left, seems to me one piece molded plastic. Took off the big wheels from the front and replaced them with some smaller, more wheelchair-like ones. Remember Jack "Hacksaw" Reynolds from the early 70s? Had a lot of pent up frustration and cut a Jeep apart with a hacksaw one weekend after a particularly disappointing college football game loss. Next step will be to take various saws and cut off any extra plastic then build a bamboo chair on top of it. [ Edited by MadDogMike on 2025-11-29 17:42:37 ]

Wendy and hang10tiki, thank you.

New project time. Many of you know my friend Phineas. He is getting kinda old, 205 years to be exact, and his knees aren't what they were in the 19th Century. So I'm working on a steam powered Gilligan's Island style remote control wheelchair for him.

I started with a kid's Jeep that I picked up for 20 bucks not working. It has both the ability for a kid to drive it or (the part I was interested in) for an adult to drive it with a remote control.

I charged the battery and cleaned up various contacts and got it running. I was hoping to strip it down to a floor pan somewhat like an old VW Bug. This is the pile of parts that I took off.

This is what's left, seems to me one piece molded plastic. Took off the big wheels from the front and replaced them with some smaller, more wheelchair-like ones. Remember Jack "Hacksaw" Reynolds from the early 70s? Had a lot of pent up frustration and cut a Jeep apart with a hacksaw one weekend after a particularly disappointing college football game loss. Next step will be to take various saws and cut off any extra plastic then build a bamboo chair on top of it.

[ Edited by MadDogMike on 2025-11-29 17:42:37 ]

Post #817450 by MadDogMike on Sat, Nov 29, 2025 5:40 PM