I need advice on a home project it involves PVC and copper tubing please help

08-16-2011, 05:36 PM	#1
Mufasa02 Member   Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 50	I need advice on a home project it involves PVC and copper tubing please help I need to attach 3 pieces of 3in copper tubing to a piece of PVC pipe a cannot simply drill a hole through the copper tubing and put a screw through the copper into the PVC pipe. The copper tubing will be attached horizontally running the length of the PVC pipe. if you have any advice or tips please reply

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08-16-2011, 06:27 PM	#2
gregzoll Average Joe/ex-Navy IC3     Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Midwest - Central Illinois Posts: 9,263	I need advice on a home project it involves PVC and copper tubing please help Do you have a drawing of what you are wanting to do? You could use epoxy to mount the copper on the pvc.

08-16-2011, 06:35 PM	#3
Mufasa02 Member   Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 50	I need advice on a home project it involves PVC and copper tubing please help Yes I do have a very basic drawing, is there a specific type of epoxy I should use? And will the epoxy be durable enough for large amounts of use?

08-16-2011, 06:50 PM	#4
gregzoll Average Joe/ex-Navy IC3     Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Midwest - Central Illinois Posts: 9,263	I need advice on a home project it involves PVC and copper tubing please help It depends on what this is being used for.

08-16-2011, 06:56 PM	#5
Mufasa02 Member   Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 50	I need advice on a home project it involves PVC and copper tubing please help I'm building a modle of a fully operational Vulcan minigun ( accept for the shooting part) so it's going to be used alot

08-16-2011, 06:59 PM	#6
gregzoll Average Joe/ex-Navy IC3     Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Midwest - Central Illinois Posts: 9,263	I need advice on a home project it involves PVC and copper tubing please help Epoxy should work. You still will need to do some minor maintenance to keep it looking good. may want to look at some of the Steampunk forums, since they do stuff like this a lot for their characters.

08-16-2011, 07:03 PM	#7
Mufasa02 Member   Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 50	I need advice on a home project it involves PVC and copper tubing please help Yes it's going to be a air soft minigun I expected minor maitnence for it but thank you

08-16-2011, 07:04 PM	#8
gregzoll Average Joe/ex-Navy IC3     Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Midwest - Central Illinois Posts: 9,263	I need advice on a home project it involves PVC and copper tubing please help Now, that is something that I would like to see. The largest was a potato gun. What would be cool, is if you could design one that is a working Phalanx style gun. Would work great to stop speeders.

08-16-2011, 07:08 PM	#9
Mufasa02 Member   Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 50	I need advice on a home project it involves PVC and copper tubing please help Yea t would when my minigun is finished I'll probably post some pictures of it