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how to bend acrylic pipe perfectly step
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one measure the inner diameter of your
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pipe - 18 millimeter and outside is 22
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millimeter
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step 2 get a silicon rod that fits on
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the inside of your pipe mine is a
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medical silicone rod and it's exactly 18
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millimeter step 3
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cut your silicon rod to length and then
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cut a taper at one side drill a hole
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through the table side step 4 use a
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really strong string and thread it
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through that hole you just drilled in
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the silicon rod I have noticed that
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bending a thin metal wire and using that
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as a kind of a needle really helps with
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this step 5 here I'm putting some corn
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flour starch on the silicon rod to make
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it slide easier you can also try washing
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up liquid or soapy water and that's all
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preparation done so we can finally
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thread our silicon rod through the
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acrylic pipe put on some gloves and
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start up your heat gun step 6
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bending the acrylic pipe try to heat up
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the acrylic pipe as evenly as you can
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you can adjust the temperature by moving
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the silicon rod closer or further away
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from the heat gun and in my experience
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the further away you are and the more
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patience you spend and the slower you do
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this step the better the result once you
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feel that critics often hang up you can
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do your band I like to try to stay in
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the heat of the heat gun but a little
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bit further away constantly keeping the
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acrylic warm while I'm doing the band
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and then removing the acrylic from the
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heat gun when I'm happy with the shape
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so this was my first try and it's not
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perfect you can see here I let the heat
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go a little bit too far so we have these
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ugly bubbles and the whole pipe is a
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little cloudy I think it was because my
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gloves were really oily so I was a
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stupid choice of gloves the corn flour
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starch normally doesn't cloud my pipes
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but for the second try I wanted to use
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washing up liquid and clean gloves
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instead let's see how that went for the
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second try I went with a really tight
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radius
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as you can see here I think I got greedy
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and went with a little bit too tight
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radius the pipe looks clear though no
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more cloudiness and I would recommend
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you to order more material than what you
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need for your project because you will
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have some failed pipe practice makes
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perfect
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as always okay third time's the charm
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whoever said that perfection does not
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exist and that it's a fool's errand to
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pursue it did not look at my son nail
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picture in 4k resolution and way I hope
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you enjoyed this tutorial it's a true
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pleasure to bend acrylic pipes and now
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you have to make up a project just to be
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able to experience it the reason why I'm
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bending so much acrylic pipe right now
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is because of the marble machine axe
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here I'm using bent acrylic pipe for
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marble transportation connecting the
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demagnetizer with the marble conveyor
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belt and higher up on a machine have
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connected the outlet from the conveyor
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belt and the fish star with a marble
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divider and also the marble divider
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itself is made from bent PMA pipe
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I have just started to work on the most
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difficult acrylic pipe bending project
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of the whole marble machine exfilled I
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need to connect the marble spreader that
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I built in plywood with these metal
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rails and all the pipes want to collide
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with each other I need to find perfect
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routing for this to work here I'm
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working on channel 22 which is the last
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channel of the vibraphone and there's a
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total of 38 channels
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signed need to make 38 individual pipes
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and I'm using a TIG filler rod to create
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a band template to get a feel for what
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kind of geometry I need a pipe to be
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then I can use this plan template to
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create a general shape for the pipe oh
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oh oh hold on what's this beauty if you
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remembered
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I found this stud welding CNC machine
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that I thought was amazing and I reached
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out to them and as if they wanted to
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collaborate and then something truly
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beautiful happen because you the viewer
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started to leave comments to HPS
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explaining why they should collab with
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me on the machine X my favorite was that
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they should lift up an artist from the
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sunken Coast vortex I went back to send
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an email to HPS and when I opened my
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email I found an email from HBS that's
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thanks to all your comments thank you so
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much for sticking up for the machine X
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and thanks to HBS for being positive
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towards the project I send some
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requirements and they sent me this test
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piece and I just want to show you how
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extremely precise this is here I'm using
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a micrometer which is measuring
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millimeter when you hear the first click
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of the clutch of the micrometer that's
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when you should read your value 18 I'm
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actually measuring quite crooked so if I
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had a place to measure more straight we
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would get even better result
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this machine is down to thousands of a
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millimeter in precision it's just so
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promising
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[Music]
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we're looking at using my manual
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programming pin system that I already
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built for me when I'm composing music
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for the machine X and then using this
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more sturdy reliable pre-programmed
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precise studwelding programming pin
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system from HBS for the world tour so we
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can have the best out of two worlds
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there I'm completely sidetracked in this
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video now I'm just so happy about this
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prospect let's go back to some PMMA pipe
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ending shall we
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I'm using the template and creating the
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general shape and here I'm making a
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little mark so I can cut it to length
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and then I can open the marble spreader
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and see if the pipe fits and this first
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pipe actually fits perfectly you can see
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the marble is coming out there the first
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type is easiest the consecutive pipes
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are going to be much more difficult
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because they have the problem of
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colliding with each other this is the
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moment where I realized I made three
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pipes and I have 35 pipes to go
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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in situations like this where I need to
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do really repetitive work which happens
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a lot on a marble machine next due to
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its 38 channels I keep myself going by
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repeating an inner mantra it goes like
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this world tour world tour world tour
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but seriously I totally underestimated
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how time-consuming it was to make these
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pipes so over eight hours later I had
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managed to do 11 out of 38 pipes and had
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to call it a day I will return to finish
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this task as soon as possible but for
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now I could just check the pipes I made
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and they seem to work well
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Music]
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at this moment I felt like a vampire it
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was like two marbles showed me the way
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out of my studio and into the Sun I
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spent a little time inside my Studios I
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was so happy strolling around with the
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camera this is my apricot tree I found
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the first effort of the other day you
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see it there as an applicant there's a
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huge growth here on the front of the
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house
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[Music]
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I have my absolute here under the rose
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he's having a good time there it's like
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virginal just smelling the flowers BBC
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parents are got nothing on me okay so
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thank you so much for watching and
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believing in the model
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[Music]