Everyday Uses For PVC Water Pipe
What can't you do with PVC (Polyvinyl Chloride) pipe? The ubiquitous blue PVC water pipe might be seen alongside most streets here and seems to be one in every of Thailand's most plentiful un-pure resources. A wide variety of different connectors are available and aside from carrying water additionally it is used as a cheap construction materials that can be utilized to make all the things from clothes dryers to Wheel chairs (PDF), Crutches, flagpoles and store indicators. Of course on the internet you can too find another very cool and creative things made from (non-blue) PVC pipe including: Halloween costumes like Ben Hallert's Matrix APU and Aliens Exo-skeleton Power Loader, one other energy loader costume, single and multi-guitar Guitar Hero stands, a laptop stand, flutes, and even a shaving stand. Below one can find, in chronological order, a few of my very own (principally original) creations made from PVC water pipe together with: - 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 Zapper, - 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, Fake Legs, - a Hilbert Cube, - a Mario Kart steering wheel, - a Guitar Stand, Hockey Sticks, - a Tank-sport (BZFlag) controller, - a Train Whistle, and - a Trident.
This was the project that began my love affair with blue PVC pipe. I had seen the blueprints for this marshmallow shooter while I was in Australia but the fittings had been prohibitively costly (see the image proper). Fortunately they're very reasonably priced right here in Thailand. 2 x T-Pieces and 6 x elbows. Cricket (to not be confused with Brockian Ultra-Cricket) is Australia's national sport performed with a bat, a ball, and two wickets. 6 x T-items, and 12 x 45-diploma elbows. The backboard is a non-regulation dimension piece of plywood that we discovered mendacity round and we used green duct tape for the markings. Although the ring isn't strong enough to dangle off, the facet helps make it robust enough for normal play. They also give it a really Star Trek feel and I feel the ring appears to be like not not like the NCC-31911 Saratoga. This is maybe essentially the most straight forward use for PVC pipe on this page. 2 x 25mm to 18mm (1" to 1/2") reducers, 2 x custom motorbike hand-grips, four x push-buttons, and a mercury change which are linked to a computer by way of a hacked USB joystick.
You could find more details about how I made the controller on this venture page and that i've additionally extended the same idea to play GL-Tron utilizing actual motorbikes. A college scholar who performed with the PVC Water Pipe Tron Controller, described above, mentioned "That's Ok however I prefer to play driving video games". It obtained me considering and over the next week I spent my evenings building a PVC racing automotive controller - essentially a wheel-much less, PVC go-kart frame linked to the pc through a hacked USB joystick. Some Thai university students who saw the first automotive wished to know how it all labored and six of them got here round one Saturday and Zap Zone Defender USA we spent the whole day hacking joysticks and building a second car. By connecting them each to a laptop and an information projector we had been able to play cut up-display screen Daytona Zap Zone Defender USA. You can find more details concerning the design and construction of the cars on this project page. The white workplace table I used for the virtual pinball machine wasn't high enough to be played comfortably.
1 x T-piece, and 2 x elbows - partially to aid air move but principally to carry my screen up because the spring in the hinge has damaged. As easy as this stand seems to be, the "L"-shaped upright part is actually a part of an air-conditioner mount for an information projector that I made for one of many digital pinball desk installations. The T-piece is not glued and so in a small way (a very, very small means) I prefer to think that if the air-conditioning mount were ever needed again then the parts could re-mix in a Voltron or Captain Planet and the Planeteers or Power Rangers MegaZord-like way. In fact if that occurred my laptop display screen would fall down. I do not personal a Nintendo Wii but I did manage to get my palms on a Wiimote so that I could try out some of Johnny Chung Lee's cool initiatives. 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-pieces, and four x elbows.
The 35mm pipe has been minimize so that it matches nicely into the ridges down the facet of the Wiimote which holds it securely. This is screwed onto a T-Piece which has additionally had its top minimize off. The joint between the 2 topmost elbows is just not glued so the angle of the top section might be adjusted. These sections are simply cable-tied onto the entrance of the motorbike handlebars and the players squeeze the buttons with their index fingers to show left or proper. A mercury swap is also mounted on the precise handlebar so the accelerator can be utilized to provide increase inside the game and up to 4 bikes could be linked to the computer through a single hacked USB joystick. The centerstands keep the bikes upright during play and a half-spherical of bamboo is wedged underneath the again tires to stop them from rocking. This is a music stand made from three completely different sizes of pipe.