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To: DelaWhere

So, how did you build the rack?

It looks like white plastic buckets and PVC pipe. How’d you get the buckets to stay up?


589 posted on 02/11/2009 4:53:46 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

It kept Merlin very busy keeping them all levitated.

Actually, having resized ammo many years ago for my 7 mm mauser, I made a homemade resizing tool and die. By heating a piece of pvc sch 40 pipe and then forming it using my resizer, which I inserted into a $15 auction bought drill press. I had a flange on top and an insert section that would accept the unsized pipe. I had a hard time finding heavy duty pvc 12” nursery pots, but did finally find them, drilled a large hole in the bottom and then solvent welded the flange to the pot.

I had contacted several plastic nursery pot manufacturers and the very best price was $10,000 to make their injection mold and had to guarantee them a run of 50,000. Not an option! So, I improvised. Problem becomes water distribution. I played with that quite a bit before going on to another project.


603 posted on 02/11/2009 6:36:15 AM PST by DelaWhere (I'm a Klingon - Clinging to guns and Bible - Putting Country First - Preparing for the Worst!!!)
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