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How the heck did i make it?

The living room of my father's place had a very strong ceiling fan, which could go in reverse. Instead of blowing air down, it would pull the air up. That would create an updraft strong enough to sustain the vortex. Next, I had a box fan and a blanket set up to redirect the air flow so it rotated around the center of the room. You can see it as the dark blue object in the back right. After the fans were turned on, I laid out an old dark red bed sheet with a small PVC pipe underneath it connected to a fog machine. The bed sheet allowed the fog to gently seep through and get pulled into the vortex, as opposed to being blasted out of the pipe. And then it was all a matter of letting the ceiling fan's updraft and the box fan's rotation mix into a 10 ft tall indoor tornado!!

PVC toxicity. You can leach it out by putting the exposed body part in a calcium solution.

I can see this one from both sides. The potential for litigation -- which could be truly catastrophic for a school / business / private person / whatever -- is real. It's fucking retarded, but it is a real danger.

In the early 2000's, I was living in a trailer park with a buddy while we were going to college. We lived right next to a movie theater that had a nice, huge, paved asphalt parking lot in the back. We used to take roller blades, sticks, and a PVC hockey goal into that lot and play roller hockey after closing time -- like 2AM or so. Nobody there, no parked cars, no property around to damage with errant shots or whatever.

One night we went a bit earlier than usual, and the manager had happened to stay late to close. He saw us as he was driving out and started driving towards us. I figured "well, there goes this spot". He asked us what were were doing, we explained. He asked us if we had asked anybody for permission, and we admitted we hadn't. He asked if we knew that companies sometimes got sued by people who wiped out and broke a leg or whatever, and we said yes.

And then he surprised me. He said "OK, consider this me, the manager, giving you permission to keep on playing here, on these conditions:

1) Never play there if there are parked cars in that part of the lot behind the theater.
2) Come in and ask for permission again if we want to play with more people, or if any other conditions change.
3) Look me in the eye and give me your word as a man that you wouldn't sue me for being an idiot and falling down and breaking your arm or whatever, and shake my hand to seal the bargain."

Awesome theater manager. Not sure if things have gotten enough worse in litigation-crazy USA that he'd be willing to make that same bargain again. But that wouldn't be his fault, it would be an outcome of our crazy legal system.

I watched in Luxor also back pretty close to the same year -- I think a bit earlier, maybe 1998 or so? They had a great bit where they grabbed an audience volunteer and all put on "bib" like things with a spigot sticking out of them, then ate twinkies. As they ate, yellow/orange goo extruded out of the spigots -- really freaked out the audience volunteer!

Then I saw them again in I think 2014. Again in Vegas, but they had changed venues to the Monte Carlo. From a quick web search it looks like they are maybe back at the Luxor now, though.


Musically, it is extremely impressive to me how they can produce really great stuff that is all centered around their custom-built PVC and other percussion instruments. You'd think that a very percussion-heavy music act with blue body paint and "act weird" shtick might get stale, but I really loved both live shows I went to as well as their albums and DVDs like the MegaStar show.

Weird but great!

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Internet videos have definitely destroyed my ability to enjoy a sweet video like this.

I kept expecting as the mommy and daddy birds approached for them to actually be predators the baby was hiding from in the PVC pipe and that they'd tear apart the bird in front of the guy who was just trying to save it.

According to his description on YouTube it's 3mm PVC Komacel :

"Here is a video of me building a Dodge M37 body from scratch. Edited down to 17 minutes from 3 hours of footage from 60 hours of build time. I hope it can entertain and inspire folks to be creative and make things. The body is made mostly with 3mm thick PVC sheet called Komacel, glued with CA glue. Driver is pine wood, bumper is aluminum. Rides on a GCM 4ten leafed chassis and tcase, rc4wd K44 axles, axial trans, tekin esc and motor."

"esc" in his quote = electronic speed control.

His build of a 77 Ford is equally impressive.

Interesting video.
I'm curious why they used super expensive metallic paint when actual metal would have probably been more accurate (radar wise). Also seems important that the materials used inside the cockpit should be the same, not just the shape. I'm pretty sure the Germans didn't use PVC tubes to build it...

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Hilarious. Perhaps the best such compilation I've ever seen. So many WTFs uttered. I mean, free fall into a folding chair from the bleachers? How did you expect that to end well?

However, a few were rather tame -- knocking over a Christmas tree, for instance. And I think the belly flop into the wall at 8:10 went exactly as intended and probably didn't hurt much. Likewise for the PVC hanger thing destroyed in the lawn at 3:34. The snow bank (unintentional?) wheelie was frankly awesome. The guy who failed the fence flip at 7:12 was even laughing at himself. These things are still funny, but "extreme idiots" seems a bit harsh.

They were WAY too close when they blew up the fridge.

Reminds me of when my cousin and I made some PVC pipe bombs with black powder and PVC pipe when we were kids. My aunt had to help him extract a piece of plastic from his butt because he didn't set a long enough fuse to be able to get back to our bunker at a safe distance.

Someone went crazy with the fiber boards and PVC pipe.

>> ^shuac:

What about the water bottle with the little tube?


It's a 50 gallon barrel with some 2" pvc just off camera to the right.