Everyday Uses For PVC Water Pipe

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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 certainly one of Thailand's most plentiful un-natural resources. A wide variety of different connectors can be found and other than carrying water additionally it is used as an inexpensive construction material that can be utilized to make every little thing from clothes dryers to Wheel chairs (PDF), Crutches, flagpoles and store indicators. In fact on the web you may also discover another very cool and inventive 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, Zap Zone Defender Review flutes, and even a shaving stand. Below one can find, in chronological order, some of my very own (mostly unique) 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 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-recreation (BZFlag) controller, - a Train Whistle, and - a Trident.



This was the mission that started my love affair with blue PVC pipe. I had seen the blueprints for this marshmallow shooter whereas I used to be in Australia however the fittings have been prohibitively expensive (see the picture proper). Fortunately they're very inexpensive here in Thailand. 2 x T-Pieces and 6 x elbows. Cricket (not to be confused with Brockian Ultra-Cricket) is Australia's national sport played with a bat, a ball, and two wickets. 6 x T-items, and 12 x 45-degree elbows. The backboard is a non-regulation dimension piece of plywood that we discovered lying around and we used inexperienced duct tape for the markings. Although the ring is not sturdy enough to cling off, the facet helps make it strong enough for normal play. In addition they give it a very Star Trek really feel and I feel the ring seems not unlike the NCC-31911 Saratoga. This is probably 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 that are related to a computer by way of a hacked USB joystick.



Yow will discover extra particulars about how I made the controller on this challenge page and that i've also extended the identical thought to play GL-Tron using actual motorbikes. A university scholar who played with the PVC Water Pipe Tron Controller, described above, Zap Zone Defender Review mentioned "That's Ok however I prefer to play driving games". It obtained me pondering and over the subsequent week I spent my evenings constructing a PVC racing car controller - essentially a wheel-much less, PVC go-kart body related to the pc through a hacked USB joystick. Some Thai college students who noticed the primary automotive wished to understand how it all labored and 6 of them got here round one Saturday and we spent the whole day hacking joysticks and building a second car. By connecting them both to a laptop computer and a data projector we were capable of play cut up-screen Daytona USA. You'll find extra details in regards to the design and development of the vehicles on this mission page. The white workplace table I used for the digital pinball machine wasn't high enough to be played comfortably.



1 x T-piece, and a couple of x elbows - partially to assist air circulation however mostly to carry my display up because the spring within the hinge has broken. As easy as this stand appears to be like, the "L"-formed upright part is definitely part of an air-conditioner mount for an information projector that I made for one of the virtual pinball table installations. The T-piece isn't glued and so in a small means (a really, very small method) I prefer to assume that if the air-conditioning mount had been ever wanted once more then the elements could re-combine in a Voltron or Captain Planet and the Planeteers or Power Rangers MegaZord-like approach. After all if that occurred my laptop display would fall down. I don't personal a Nintendo Wii however I did manage to get my hands on a Wiimote so that I might try out a few of Johnny Chung Lee's cool initiatives. This is a Wiimote mount I constructed utilizing a length of 35mm (1 and 1/4") pipe, some 18mm (1/2") pipe, 3 x T-pieces, and 4 x elbows.



The 35mm pipe has been cut so that it fits properly 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 lower off. The joint between the 2 topmost elbows is not glued so the angle of the highest section may 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 switch can be mounted on the best handlebar so the accelerator can be used to supply boost inside the sport and up to four bikes will be related to the pc by way of a single hacked USB joystick. The centerstands keep the bikes upright during play and a half-round of bamboo is wedged beneath the again tires to cease them from rocking. It is a music stand made from three different sizes of pipe.