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    PVC Pipe and it's many uses....

    Well for a quick bike stand, or as a spare one, or if your a cheap SOB, you can make your own out of PVC pipe.....

    I don't have the measurements of this particular one, just saw the image and thought I would share.....

    Sort of a neat idea....



    #2
    Ummmmmm. No thanks. Metal slides on PVC quite readily.
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      #3
      Where did you hide the green zip ties ?
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        #4
        OK, so some rubber needs to be added to the contact point, then again if the bike has spools it wouldn't go anywhere.....

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          #5
          After an Aluminium harbor freight unit bent and dumped one of my GS's I think I'd be very cautious about using this one...
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            #6
            Id try it albeit it with reservations. Agreed on the rubber on the contact points. In that design the highest stress will come as you are lifting the bike and the uprights are flexing away from vertical. What I'd do personally in have a second piece sleeved into each upright to add strength and guard against breakage.

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              #7
              Where does the flush handle go?
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                #8
                (that hurts, Cyrano! ...but I like the idea and... that Confidence is exhibited in that it's shown being used on a table so high off the ground .
                But because it's easy to use (slip under, lever down) it looks awfully like it would slip out too easily by accident. Maybe the bike is chocked-and-locked at the front but still:
                All in all, I am glad I have a center stand.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by salty_monk View Post
                  After an Aluminium harbor freight unit bent and dumped one of my GS's I think I'd be very cautious about using this one...
                  I was actually looking at some of that Harbor Freight stuff. I get leave soon and I wanted to stop by their shop in SoCal.

                  I'll remember your warning.

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                    #10
                    I used to make all sorts of stuff from PVC. Most of it an utter disaster. It's too brittle when cold and too weak for anything other than low pressure air or liquid inside the pipe. This idea seems just as foolish as the dozens I have come up with myself.
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                      #11
                      Check out You Tube, you can find videos of guys making archery longbows out of it, and yes they work. My kid did one.

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                        #12
                        I built a tank for a homemade ram pump out of PVC a while back. Thing actually worked great.

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                          #13
                          Many a tater has met its untimely end in my - er umm, contraptions. The last one was 6 1/2' long with a 5' rifled barrel, nearly sniper accurate at 250 yards.

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                            #14
                            We made a trebuchet out of PVC that would hurl an egg nearly a quarter mile, with pretty good accuracy. Could hit the same house almost every time. The eggs mostly stayed together until they landed. Jackass probably never figured it out, but he was a real jackass anyway.
                            Actually the accuracy came after we switched to a used pole vaulting pole for the arm. The PVC was too flimsy for that part.
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                              #15
                              ^^^ Dude. You are AWESOME. ^^^

                              When Dad was alive he always talked about making one to fling fish guts into the neighboring RV park that got built to ONE FOOT from his yard. Owner was a real turd, so every so often Dad would host a free "dyno night" at his metal shop.

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