Everyday Uses For PVC Water Pipe

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What cannot you do with PVC (Polyvinyl Chloride) pipe? The ubiquitous blue PVC water pipe will be seen alongside most streets right here and seems to be one among Thailand's most considerable un-natural sources. All kinds of various connectors are available and aside from carrying water it is usually used as a cheap construction material that can be used to make all the pieces from clothes dryers to Wheel chairs (PDF), Crutches, flagpoles and store indicators. After all on the internet you can even discover some other very cool and creative issues made from (non-blue) PVC pipe including: Halloween costumes like Ben Hallert's Matrix APU and Aliens Exo-skeleton Power Loader, another power loader costume, single and multi-guitar Guitar Hero stands, a laptop stand, flutes, and even a shaving stand. Below you can find, in chronological order, some of my own (mostly original) creations made from PVC water pipe including: - a Marshmallow Shooter, Plumbing, Soccer Goals, - a Cricket Wicket, - a Basketball Hoop, Bookshelf Supports, - a Water Pipe Tron Controller, Racing Cars, Pinball Table Leg Extensions, Data Projector Mounts, - a Laptop Stand, - a Wiimote Holder, - a DIY Wii Zappify Bug Zapper shop, - a Workbench, Real-Tron Controllers - a Music Stand Puzzle Bobble Coffee Grinder Controllers, - a Netbook Treadmill Hook, CD/DVD Holders, - a Nightstand/shelves, - Push Up Bar/Handles, Zappify Bug Zapper shop Fake Legs, - a Hilbert Cube, - a Mario Kart steering wheel, Zappify Bug Zapper shop - a Guitar Stand, Hockey Sticks, - a Tank-recreation (BZFlag) controller, - a Train Whistle, and - a Trident.



This was the challenge that began my love affair with blue PVC pipe. I had seen the blueprints for this marshmallow shooter while I used to be in Australia however the fittings have been prohibitively expensive (see the image proper). Fortunately they're very reasonably priced right here in Thailand. 2 x T-Pieces and 6 x elbows. Cricket (not to be confused with Brockian Ultra-Cricket) is Australia's nationwide sport played with a bat, a ball, portable bug zapper and two wickets. 6 x T-items, and 12 x 45-degree elbows. The backboard is a non-regulation measurement piece of plywood that we found lying round and we used green duct tape for the markings. Although the ring is not strong enough to hold off, the facet helps make it strong sufficient for regular play. Additionally they give it a very Star Trek feel and I feel the ring appears not unlike the NCC-31911 Saratoga. This is probably probably the most straight ahead use for PVC pipe on this web page. 2 x 25mm to 18mm (1" to 1/2") reducers, 2 x customized motorbike hand-grips, four x push-buttons, and a mercury switch that are linked to a pc via a hacked USB joystick.



You can find extra details about how I made the controller on this challenge page and i've additionally prolonged the identical idea to play GL-Tron utilizing actual motorbikes. A college pupil who played with the PVC Water Pipe Tron Controller, described above, stated "That's Ok however I like to play driving video games". It bought me thinking and over the following week I spent my evenings constructing a PVC racing car controller - basically a wheel-less, PVC go-kart frame connected to the computer via a hacked USB joystick. Some Thai college college students who saw the first automobile wanted to understand how all of it worked and six of them got here round one Saturday and we spent the whole day hacking joysticks and building a second automobile. By connecting them both to a laptop and a knowledge projector we had been capable of play split-display Daytona USA. You could find extra details about the design and building of the vehicles on this mission web page. The white office desk I used for Zappify Bug Zapper shop the digital pinball machine wasn't excessive sufficient to be played comfortably.



1 x T-piece, and 2 x elbows - partially to help air circulate but principally to hold my screen up as a result of the spring in the hinge has damaged. As easy as this stand seems to be, the "L"-formed upright section is definitely part of an air-conditioner mount for a data projector that I made for one of the virtual pinball table installations. The T-piece is not glued and so in a small method (a very, very small means) I like to assume that if the air-conditioning mount have been ever needed again then the parts could re-mix in a Voltron or Captain Planet and the Planeteers or Power Rangers MegaZord-like method. In fact if that happened my laptop screen would fall down. I do not own a Nintendo Wii however I did handle to get my fingers on a Wiimote so that I could check out some of Johnny Chung Lee's cool tasks. This can be a Wiimote mount I built using a length of 35mm (1 and 1/4") pipe, some 18mm (1/2") pipe, 3 x T-items, and 4 x elbows.



The 35mm pipe has been reduce so that it suits properly into the ridges down the side of the Wiimote which holds it securely. That is screwed onto a T-Piece which has also had its top reduce off. The joint between the two topmost elbows is not glued so the angle of the highest part will be adjusted. These sections are merely cable-tied onto the front of the motorbike handlebars and Zappify Bug Zapper the players squeeze the buttons with their index fingers to turn left or right. A mercury change can be mounted on the proper handlebar so the accelerator can be used to offer boost inside the game and up to 4 bikes might be linked to the pc by way of a single hacked USB joystick. The centerstands keep the bikes upright during play and a half-spherical of bamboo is wedged beneath the back tires to cease them from rocking. This is a music stand made from three totally different sizes of pipe.