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Pop tops to Pvc tubes
By:mike allen --->
Date: 11/10/2000, 12:17 pm
In Response To: Re: We're all buying!! (Shawn Baker)

: Oh yeah!

: Like the sports water bottles, store-bought water bottles, dish soap bottles.

: Any good ideas for attaching one of those "pop" tops to a small
: tube?

: Maybe I'll just resort to a Big Ol Glob (tm) of AquaSeal

: Shawn

I wonder if the pvc tubes will melt and form and glue just like the pvc fabric for the dry bags? Or i bet that some form of polyurethane glue would work. Is aquaseal poly urethane?

For small screw caps(are there such a thing?), maybe just heat the last half inch end of the pvc tube, fold it back outside on itself for a greater diameter and 'screw' on the cap while the tube is hottish and will deform to the threads. Could maybe succesively wrap back and forth to reach larger diameters.(Don't let it close off any)

Or maybe some sort of pvc small fitting coupler (small aquariums) filed to fit both.

I just tried blowing on some dishwasher fluid's cap at work. The diameter looks really close.(whew! no one saw me) Seems to seal. (And now I don't have to wash dishes any more, cause the food gets cleaned as I eat it!). Sports water bottles are probably too expensive.

Sounds like a keeper.

Probably need a better tube to pvc sheet connection.

-mick

Messages In This Thread

Source for float bag fill valves
Shawn Baker -- 11/7/2000, 6:09 pm
Fantasy Meets Reality??? Here?? Then??
mike allen ---> -- 11/8/2000, 12:37 pm
[i]Theme from 'The Twilight Zone'[/i]
Shawn Baker -- 11/8/2000, 1:20 pm
Theme from 'The Twilight Zone
mike allen ---> -- 11/8/2000, 7:15 pm
Re: You're far too observant!
Shawn Baker -- 11/8/2000, 10:20 pm
closing the end on rolled, flat, tubing
Paul G. Jacobson -- 11/8/2000, 7:47 pm
plugs for fill tubes
Paul G. Jacobson -- 11/8/2000, 7:39 pm
Drilled plastic bolt
mike allen ---> -- 11/8/2000, 8:02 pm
anyone for a drink?
Paul G. Jacobson -- 11/9/2000, 2:45 pm
We're all buying!!
mike allen ---> -- 11/9/2000, 8:08 pm
Re: We're all buying!!
Shawn Baker -- 11/10/2000, 11:25 am
Pop tops to Pvc tubes
mike allen ---> -- 11/10/2000, 12:17 pm
Dooohhh!!!
mike allen ---> -- 11/14/2000, 11:28 am
Re: Drilled plastic bolt
Shawn Baker -- 11/9/2000, 11:33 am
Filed plastic bolt
mike allen ---> -- 11/9/2000, 11:54 am
Re: [i]Theme from 'The Twilight Zone'[/i]
Tony -- 11/8/2000, 6:24 pm
Re: [i]Theme from 'The Twilight Zone'[/i]
Shawn Baker -- 11/8/2000, 7:09 pm
Re: Source for float bag fill valves
Matthew -- 11/7/2000, 11:48 pm
Re: Source for float bag fill valves
Paul G. Jacobson -- 11/7/2000, 10:04 pm
Re: Source for float bag fill valves
Rehd -- 11/7/2000, 11:17 pm