Everyday Uses For PVC Water Pipe

What cannot you do with PVC (Polyvinyl Chloride) pipe? The ubiquitous blue PVC water pipe may be seen alongside most streets here and seems to be certainly one of Thailand's most considerable un-natural sources. A wide variety of various connectors are available and other than carrying water it is also used as an affordable building materials that can be utilized to make the whole lot from clothes dryers to Wheel chairs (PDF), Crutches, flagpoles and shop indicators. Of course on the web you may as well discover some other very cool and artistic issues made from (non-blue) PVC pipe together with: 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 computer stand, flutes, and even a shaving stand. Below you'll discover, in chronological order, a few of my own (principally authentic) 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 Zappify 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-sport (BZFlag) controller, - a Train Whistle, and - a Trident.



This was the mission that began 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 had been prohibitively costly (see the image right). Fortunately they are very affordable 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-degree elbows. The backboard is a non-regulation measurement piece of plywood that we discovered lying around and we used green duct tape for the markings. Although the ring is not strong sufficient to cling off, the facet helps make it strong sufficient for regular play. Additionally they give it a very Star Trek really feel and I believe the ring appears to be like not not like 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.



You will discover more details about how I made the controller on this mission web page and that i've also extended the same concept to play GL-Tron utilizing real motorbikes. A college student who performed with the PVC Water Pipe Tron Controller, Zappify Bug Zapper described above, said "That's Ok however I wish to play driving games". It got 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 linked to the computer by way of a hacked USB joystick. Some Thai college students who noticed the primary automotive wished to know how it all labored and 6 of them came round one Saturday and we spent the entire day hacking joysticks and constructing a second automobile. By connecting them both to a laptop and an information projector we were capable of play cut up-screen Daytona USA. Yow will discover more details about the design and construction of the cars on this challenge web page. The white workplace table I used for the digital pinball machine wasn't high enough to be performed comfortably.



1 x T-piece, and 2 x elbows - partially to aid air flow however mostly to hold my display up because the spring within the hinge has broken. As simple as this stand appears to be like, the "L"-formed upright section is definitely part of an air-conditioner mount for an information projector that I made for one of the virtual pinball desk installations. The T-piece is not glued and so in a small means (a really, very small way) I prefer to assume that if the air-conditioning mount have been ever wanted again then the components may re-combine in a Voltron or Captain Planet and the Planeteers or Power Rangers MegaZord-like means. After all if that occurred my laptop display screen would fall down. I do not personal a Nintendo Wii but I did manage to get my arms on a Wiimote in order that I may check out a few of Johnny Chung Lee's cool initiatives. It is a Wiimote mount I built using a size 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 in order that it fits properly into the ridges down the aspect of the Wiimote which holds it securely. This is screwed onto a T-Piece which has also had its prime reduce off. The joint between the two topmost elbows will not be glued so the angle of the highest part might be adjusted. These sections are simply cable-tied onto the front of the motorbike handlebars and the gamers squeeze the buttons with their index fingers to show left or proper. A mercury switch is also mounted on the precise handlebar so the accelerator can be used to provide increase inside the sport and up to four bikes can be connected to the pc by way of a single hacked USB joystick. The centerstands keep the bikes upright throughout play and a half-round of bamboo is wedged beneath the back tires to cease them from rocking. This can be a music stand made from three totally different sizes of pipe.