Scratch built water tank

[Bill Barnwell]

Pieces parts, tank legs are made from PVC lumber cut down, tank is a 6" piece of PVC pipe scribed from top to bottom to simulate boards, tank bands are Copper wire, spout is CVPC heated and stretched for taper effect, support shafts between bottom supports is coat hanger with 2/25 nuts glued to ends, detail parts are plastruct ladder, and evergreen styrene strips, chain is from a necklace left outside to rust, roof is top off a bird feeder that's painted to look like cedar shakes, and weather vane is from Hobby Lobby and holds everything together, fun build, Bill

 

[Paul M]

Pieces parts, tank legs are made from PVC lumber cut down, tank is a 6" piece of PVC pipe scribed from top to bottom to simulate boards, tank bands are Copper wire, spout is CVPC heated and stretched for taper effect, support shafts between bottom supports is coat hanger with 2/25 nuts glued to ends, detail parts are plastruct ladder, and evergreen styrene strips, chain is from a necklace left outside to rust, roof is top off a bird feeder that's painted to look like cedar shakes, and weather vane is from Hobby Lobby and holds everything together, fun build, Bill

Another marvelously inventive piece of modelling

 

[GAP]

Now I am sobbing quite loudly

 

[Paul M]

Now I am sobbing quite loudly

Not the old waterworks again?

 

[Fred Mills]

Gappy...again, I'll join you, and again, provide the ale...
(This teary eyed thing has got to stop...I'm using up my best ale with this nonsense !!)
Fr.Fred

 

[JimmyB]

Nice

 

[Paul M]

Nice

Yep, 4 little letters sums it up nicely

 

[korm kormsen]

well done, but i'm smitten by the spout!
i would like to know a little bit more about heating, stretching and tapering the spout.

 

[Bill Barnwell]

well done, but i'm smitten by the spout!
i would like to know a little bit more about heating, stretching and tapering the spout.

 

[Bill Barnwell]

CVPC is heat resistant not water pipe and I secured a 1' piece to the bench top and hung it over the side on the other bottom end I clamped a set of fairly heavy vice grip pliers. Heated the tubing with a heat gun until the tubing became soft and started to stretch and when it looked like what I was looking for I put cold water on it to stop the process. Had a nice taper on the tube and cut out the part I wanted,Bill

 

[GAP]

Gappy...again, I'll join you, and again, provide the ale...
(This teary eyed thing has got to stop...I'm using up my best ale with this nonsense !!)
Fr.Fred

Fred
Its all part of my cunning plan to get free ale

 

[korm kormsen]

CVPC is heat resistant not water pipe and I secured a 1' piece to the bench top and hung it over the side on the other bottom end I clamped a set of fairly heavy vice grip pliers. Heated the tubing with a heat gun until the tubing became soft and started to stretch and when it looked like what I was looking for I put cold water on it to stop the process. Had a nice taper on the tube and cut out the part I wanted,Bill

thank you. i will try that.