The other day I decided to make a homemade product that will delight not only me but also distract my child for a long time. This craft requires inexpensive fittings (parts) from a plumbing store.
My kit includes such plumbing parts as:
- Three-plane tees.
- Couplings.
- 45 ° elbows.
- 90 ° elbows.
- Tees are ordinary.
- All parts are 10 pieces. Except for the contours, there are 4 of them.
- Four meters of pipe, we will cut it into pieces.
Pre-erased the printed barcodes from the parts, they are perfectly removed with a rag with alcohol, take a note.
In order to smoothly connect pipes with fittings, without welding, they must be drilled with a wood cutter 20 mm. For a tighter connection. Or prepare a special feather drill sharpened under a cone, on emery, so that the structures are easily disassembled. Photo in the gallery, considering.
Next, you need to drill all the details special. drill. So that the inserted tubes fit easily.
I put all the homemade components in a suitcase. There I also folded 4 meters of pipes, cut into pieces of 30 cm. 15 and 10 cm. After bringing home the parts I washed them in the bathroom in soapy water.
Many people know that any constructor sold in stores for children has its drawbacks. Firstly, they are expensive and the more parts the more expensive. Secondly, it is not known from what stinking Chinese plastic they are made.
I propose an alternative that you can do yourself. Construction set for the development of children from inexpensive piping materials:
- Environmentally friendly polypropylene used in drinking pipes.
- Cheapness of parts
- Designer tubes of any length
- Any interesting shape
- Wheels can be attached
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Unlimited flight of fantasy, development of spatial thinking
future plumber. - The cost of the entire set will vary around 500-600 rubles. Excluding the drill (100 rubles). But this price is much cheaper than a designer with the same number of parts.
- The downside of the craft is that it has one color.
My baby still does not know how to collect figures, but she smashes them with pleasure. I think that children from 1.5 years old will be delighted with such a DIY constructor. Especially the boys. Share this homemade product with friends who have small children, I think they will also take note of it.