500 pieces of 1inch PVC.. what can I do?

Skyhawk · Post by **Skyhawk** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 11:19 pm

since I cant throw Anythign away, I now have (nearly) 500 two foot long pieces of 1 inch pvc pipe stacked in the back of My truck. they are cutoffs from a huge project at work (home depot) and I Know there must be Something I can do.. but Im still drawing a blank..

what Can a clever person (in my own humble opinion) do with this near treasure?

lets hear it, everyone

gilmore · Post by **gilmore** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 11:33 pm

Gift them.

Peace pipes.

Daytime light sticks.

Batons for children.

Build geodesic domes for gerbils.

calsur · Post by **calsur** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 11:33 pm

Gift them to a irrigation supply company to turn into nipples.

And I just have to ask. Why the hell would you save 2 foot 1" PVC? Thats like saving a condom.

Skyhawk · Post by **Skyhawk** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 11:37 pm

well.... other then apparently pressing the button twice, I Think im pretty clever, and in the simplest words, I just have a hard time throwing out things that could be, might be, just nearly could be usefull in Some way.. its a sickness..

calsur · Post by **calsur** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 11:37 pm

Gift them to a irrigation supply company to turn into nipples.

And I just have to ask. Why the hell would you save 2 foot 1" PVC? Thats like saving a condom.

And you saved 500?

calsur · Post by **calsur** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 11:40 pm

Hit the button twice too.

Buy lots of land to store your stuff.

Skyhawk · Post by **Skyhawk** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 11:54 pm

I didnt save them up, just got them all in one plop.. its in the rebar thread if you care, and that button thing seems contagious.. as for land.. errr..

Dork · Post by **Dork** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 11:56 pm

If you can figure out an efficient way to attach the pieces at odd angles you could make a cool sculpture. Or, an 18' wide 6v dome.

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 6:15 am

Thread rope through 'em, and create a hanging dome loft.

Make lotsa wind chimes.

Drill holes in 'em and make flutes.

Use 'em as a border in your garden.

Create a corduroy path.

Use 'em as rungs in one LONGASS rope ladder.

dman · Post by **dman** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 6:15 am

playa flute schwag?

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 7:59 am

dman wrote:playa flute schwag?

....I've decided to walk around saying that to people all day. So far, they're really puzzled.

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 11:22 am

they would make great sheaths for our aircraft cable guy wires.

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 11:47 am

Or drinking straws for the five-gallon-bucket margaritas.

LostMachine · Post by **LostMachine** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 12:59 am

If i had 500 pieces of 1" x2' polyvinyl chloride pipe this is what I would do.

With some cord, string 6 of them together to form a Tetrahedron.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Tetrahedron.html

You'll have to experiment with tying the knots to keep them together. You might be able to take a piece of string shorter than 6 feet or the length of 3 struts, tie a loop or eye at each end. String it through then use a zip tie to pull the two loops together, then tuck the zip tie into the pipe. Just an idea, you'll need to play around with it.

You can group 4 of these together to make a bigger Tetrahedron, you could stack them all kinds of ways into towers, archways....

You could build an Icosahedron
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Icosahedron.html

it would look cool to paint the Icosahedron with one color then add 20 pieces connecting from the vertices to the center.

Each triangle on the outside of your Icosahedron could have three Tetrahedron added to it to make an even bigger Icosahedron. I'd have to do the math but you might have enough for a third layer and if you do then you would have a 12' diameter sphere, all from trash.

This is what I would do, but chances are that if I got started I'd branch off after playing around with it.

I don't throw anything away either. There is a use for it all, it just takes the right person. The 30' truncated Icosahedron dome that I'm working on was all made from scrap.

Bob · Post by **Bob** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 6:43 am

In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people... the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing...

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 9:27 am

Bob, you DEFINITELY go to eleven.

500 pieces of 1inch PVC.. what can I do?

500 pieces of 1inch PVC.. what can I do?

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