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How to make a bottle cutter with your own hands
Today everything is sold in plastic bottles: water, beer, milk. Each of us annually produces about 300 kilograms of solid waste, a significant part of which is plastic containers.
And while scientists of the world are struggling to create soluble and harmless containers of the XXI century, inventors also do not sit idle, offering different ways of recycling plastic waste.
Often on vacation or in the country it happens that you need a strong cord or rope, and there is nothing suitable at hand. No problem, you can make a fairly long and strong rope from an ordinary empty PET bottle.
Lawyer Egorov, whose inventions are very popular with our editorial staff, tells how to make a compact bottle cutter and how to cut a rope from plastic with its help.
Bottle cutter Egorov It allows you to cut the tape from 1 millimeter to one centimeter and can be made with a minimum set of tools.
You'll need it.
Progress of work
When heated, the PET tape is compacted and shortened, which allows you to tighten various parts no worse than a bolt connection. Thermal shrinkage is also very convenient to repair tools.
If the tape bites, then the reason is too thin-walled channeler. The wall of the channel should be at least 2 millimeters thick. The second reason is the sharp edges of the end of the slot. They have to be polished.
More information about the process of making bottles can be found in the video by Maxim Egorov “Bottle cutter version 2.0”.
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If you know other interesting ways to use tape made from PET bottles, share with our readers in the comments.
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Sit in the evening by a pleasantly crackling fire you want in any, even the shortest tourist hike. Thanks to this life hack, you can build a self-sustaining fire that can burn without the slightest human intervention from 10 to 14 hours.
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And while scientists of the world are struggling to create soluble and harmless containers of the XXI century, inventors also do not sit idle, offering different ways of recycling plastic waste.
Often on vacation or in the country it happens that you need a strong cord or rope, and there is nothing suitable at hand. No problem, you can make a fairly long and strong rope from an ordinary empty PET bottle.
Lawyer Egorov, whose inventions are very popular with our editorial staff, tells how to make a compact bottle cutter and how to cut a rope from plastic with its help.
Bottle cutter Egorov It allows you to cut the tape from 1 millimeter to one centimeter and can be made with a minimum set of tools.
You'll need it.
- cut-off
- stationery blade
- 2 M5 nuts
- stud
- woodblock
Progress of work
- Drilled with a drill in the trimming of the channel through hole under the M5 bolt so that it coincided with the mounting hole in the blade of the stationery knife.
- Retreating from the drilled hole to the width of the nut, make cuts of different depths in the corner. The depth of the cut will limit the width of the tape.
- It's just a bottle cutter. To do this, put a blade in the channel and, combining the holes, put a hairpin in them.
365230 - If you have a channel, then you need to split the nuts of its wall, and if the corner, then pinch one of the walls of the corner with nuts.
- To fix the second end of the blade, insert a wooden strut into the bottle cutter.
- Bottle cut by lawyer Egorov You're ready, and you have access to an infinite supply of rope.
When heated, the PET tape is compacted and shortened, which allows you to tighten various parts no worse than a bolt connection. Thermal shrinkage is also very convenient to repair tools.
If the tape bites, then the reason is too thin-walled channeler. The wall of the channel should be at least 2 millimeters thick. The second reason is the sharp edges of the end of the slot. They have to be polished.
More information about the process of making bottles can be found in the video by Maxim Egorov “Bottle cutter version 2.0”.
about:blank
If you know other interesting ways to use tape made from PET bottles, share with our readers in the comments.
Tourists, hunters, fishermen and all lovers of nature recreation will be useful popular life hack lawyer Egorov for the manufacture of a kayak from spruce branches and packaging film. Crossing through small reservoirs and fishing, for lack of other boats, on such a boat is quite convenient.
Sit in the evening by a pleasantly crackling fire you want in any, even the shortest tourist hike. Thanks to this life hack, you can build a self-sustaining fire that can burn without the slightest human intervention from 10 to 14 hours.
Among barbecue experts, there has long been debate about what marinade to cook so that the meat becomes tender and melts in the mouth. We offer you the 8 best marinades, with which your kebabs will turn into a work of culinary art.
