Everyday Uses For PVC Water Pipe

What can't you do with PVC (Polyvinyl Chloride) pipe? The ubiquitous blue PVC water pipe could be seen alongside most streets here and appears to be one in all Thailand's most ample un-pure sources. A wide variety of different connectors can be found and apart from carrying water it is also used as an affordable construction materials that can be used to make all the things from clothes dryers to Wheel chairs (PDF), Crutches, flagpoles and shop signs. After all on the web you can too find another very cool and inventive things made from (non-blue) PVC pipe together with: Halloween costumes like Ben Hallert's Matrix APU and Aliens Exo-skeleton Power Loader, one other power loader costume, single and multi-guitar Guitar Hero stands, a laptop computer stand, flutes, and even a shaving stand. Below you can see, 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, outdoor bug zapper - a Wiimote Holder, - a DIY Wii outdoor bug 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-game (BZFlag) controller, - a Train Whistle, and - a Trident.



This was the challenge that started my love affair with blue PVC pipe. I had seen the blueprints for this marshmallow shooter while I was in Australia but the fittings have been prohibitively expensive (see the image proper). Fortunately they're very inexpensive here in Thailand. 2 x T-Pieces and 6 x elbows. Cricket (to not be confused with Brockian Ultra-Cricket) is Australia's nationwide 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 measurement piece of plywood that we found lying around and we used inexperienced duct tape for the markings. Although the ring is not sturdy enough to grasp off, the aspect helps make it strong sufficient for normal play. In addition they give it a really Star Trek really feel and I believe the ring appears to be like not in contrast to the NCC-31911 Saratoga. This is maybe essentially 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 swap which are related to a pc by way of a hacked USB joystick.



Yow will discover more particulars about how I made the controller on this project page and i've also extended the identical idea to play GL-Tron utilizing actual motorbikes. A university scholar who played with the PVC Water Pipe Tron Controller, described above, stated "That's Ok but I prefer to play driving video games". It bought me considering and over the next week I spent my evenings building a PVC racing car controller - basically a wheel-less, PVC go-kart frame connected to the pc through a hacked USB joystick. Some Thai college college students who saw the primary automobile wished to know the way it all labored and 6 of them got here round one Saturday and we spent the whole day hacking joysticks and constructing a second automobile. By connecting them both to a laptop and a knowledge projector we had been capable of play cut up-display screen Daytona USA. You'll find more particulars about the design and building of the automobiles on this challenge page. The white workplace desk I used for the digital pinball machine wasn't excessive sufficient to be performed comfortably.



1 x T-piece, and 2 x elbows - partially to help air circulate however principally to carry my screen up because the spring within the hinge has broken. As easy as this stand looks, the "L"-formed upright section is definitely part of an air-conditioner mount for an information projector that I made for one of the digital pinball table installations. The T-piece is not glued and so in a small way (a very, very small way) I prefer to assume that if the air-conditioning mount were ever wanted again then the parts might re-combine in a Voltron or Captain Planet and the Planeteers or Power Rangers MegaZord-like means. After all if that occurred my laptop screen would fall down. I do not own a Nintendo Wii however I did manage to get my fingers on a Wiimote in order that I may check out a few of Johnny Chung Lee's cool initiatives. This can be a Wiimote mount I built utilizing a size of 35mm (1 and 1/4") pipe, some 18mm (1/2") pipe, three x T-items, and four x elbows.



The 35mm pipe has been cut so that it suits properly into the ridges down the aspect of the Wiimote which holds it securely. That is screwed onto a T-Piece which has additionally had its high lower off. The joint between the 2 topmost elbows will not be glued so the angle of the top section will be adjusted. These sections are merely cable-tied onto the front of the motorbike handlebars and the gamers squeeze the buttons with their index fingers to show left or right. A mercury swap can also be mounted on the proper handlebar so the accelerator can be utilized to provide increase within the game and as much as four bikes may be linked to the computer by way of a single hacked USB joystick. The centerstands keep the bikes upright throughout play and a half-spherical of bamboo is wedged beneath the back tires to stop them from rocking. This is a music stand made from three completely different sizes of pipe.