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DIY instructions for making your own pint-glass spar platform.
 
DIY instructions for making your own pint-glass spar platform.
  
Purpose:
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===Purpose===
  
 
* See that a free-floating spar platform can be stable.
 
* See that a free-floating spar platform can be stable.
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* Fun!
 
* Fun!
  
Suggested materials:
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===Suggested materials===
  
 
* Spar: a straw
 
* Spar: a straw
 
* Ballast: some lead shot (or pebbles?).  Weight?
 
* Ballast: some lead shot (or pebbles?).  Weight?
 
* Platform: a beer coaster.
 
* Platform: a beer coaster.
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* [http://shapelock.com/index.html Website] selling easy malleable plastics.
  
Instructions:
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===Instructions===
  
 
* Clip/staple the bottom of the straw closed.
 
* Clip/staple the bottom of the straw closed.
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* Add load/decoration to platform (plastic figures?)
 
* Add load/decoration to platform (plastic figures?)
  
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Image:Bathstead2.jpg|From http://mickeyk.net/seastead.php
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{{Structure Designs}}

Latest revision as of 04:37, 9 September 2008

DIY instructions for making your own pint-glass spar platform.

Purpose

  • See that a free-floating spar platform can be stable.
  • You can make waves in the glass and show the wave response.
  • Fun!

Suggested materials

  • Spar: a straw
  • Ballast: some lead shot (or pebbles?). Weight?
  • Platform: a beer coaster.
  • Website selling easy malleable plastics.

Instructions

  • Clip/staple the bottom of the straw closed.
  • Pour in ballast.
  •  ? Good way to connect coaster
  • Add load/decoration to platform (plastic figures?)



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