Homeowner Forum / Repair / July 2009

WAG - holds the pool filter(s) for easier cleaning??

I'm an old has-been hillbilly musician. I do a little tutoring young
people on country vocals and guitar. I have quite a bit of fairly high
end recording equipment but no vocal booth. So I took some 1 1/2 inch
pipe and cut it into 80 inch sections (4), and some 36 inch sections
(8). I purchased some 4 way couplings and made a 3X3 foot square.
(picture an old telephone booth). I just hang three of those very
heavy moving company quilts over the frame, put a singer in there with
a mic and bingo, a recording studio. Dang thing sounds as good as any
top notch studio. Cost me maybe 50 bucks and I take it down and put it
up as needed.

Lotta things one can do with pvc.

All potato cannons are made of PVC.

I've made cheap curtain rods out of them.

I painted them with laquer, and they look pretty good.

I use PVC pipe (3/4-inch ID) to make poles for my holiday lights. I'll
start with a 5-foot piece, drill a hole near each end (to tie lights
to), and cut it in half with a hacksaw (angled cut).

I have the common PVC pipe towel rack by the pool
The folding frame for my spa solar cover is PVC
The ribs for the cover over my boat lift is gray (RNC) PVC conduit.
I made a 3" PVC air cannon that will shoot an orange about 150 yards.
Neck that down to 3/4" and a cigar tube half full of sand could not be
found.
If someone really wanted to they could stack milk bottle tops with a
hole drilled in the center in 1.5" PVC and it would make your gun very
quiet but that would be illegal.

I used 2 sized that fit into one
another.  With a little moto-tool
machining,
it made a great piston to make Halloween
stuff pop up, using compressed
air.

I used a four foot piece of PVC pipe to extend the length of the handle
of my pole pruner so I can reach reach higher without being tempted to
drag a stepladder out and likely topple off it.

Jeff

    I have made a frame to hold my photographic backdrops.

1 - I attached 2' sections of 2" PVC to a piece of plywood and hung it
from the side of a garden cart to carry rakes, shovels and brooms.

2 - I've made shipping containers for long thin objects (e.g. steel
stock) from PVC pipe.

3 - I rebuilt a garden bench and used PVC pipe to dip-stain the wood
strips. Dip, hang, done.

4 - I used a 4' section of PVC pipe as a breaker bar to loosen the
ball from my hitch receiver.

5 - I made cable tensioners with a 1" length of 2" PVC, an eyebolt and
a couple of nuts.

I'm sure there were other uses that don't come to mind right now.