Just wondered what you use

[Freddy0309]

just a thought but how about the tubes fishing rods are kept in? should come up at carboots

 

[eSCHEn]

 

[captain-destructo]

hmm solvent weld pipe
thats two uses for it other than waste water

its amazing how quickly you can go through a bag of spuds

 

[eSCHEn]

I've heard they make great handheld launchers for fireworks

I think we're going to break the whistle smiley in this thread.

 

[Maker]

hmm solvent weld pipe
thats two uses for it other than waste water
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its amazing how quickly you can go through a bag of spuds

I may need to buy more pipe than I had anticipated, I am a fan of spudguns.
I made a pneumatic one from 15mm copper once, loaded with cherries of the tree and it was like a shotgun.

 

[graffian]

So what are those end pieces for the plastic pipe called?
I went in a plumbers place and asked if I could have some end caps, they denied all knowledge of them!
So I wrapped a bit of scrap bar with amalgamating tape and stuffed it in the tube. I have my A15 rods in front of me the tube is ~38.84 ID[43mm od]
and the bit of bar is 1.5" with some tape on it. It's worked OK till now, so I suppose there's not a lot of point replacing it. The SIF cardboard tubes
are fine but the steel rods have always gone through the end caps, maybe they employ a bouncer at SIF to bang the tubes and **Language** the endcap.

 

[eSCHEn]

So what are those end pieces for the plastic pipe called?
I went in a plumbers place and asked if I could have some end caps, they denied all knowledge of them!
So I wrapped a bit of scrap bar with amalgamating tape and stuffed it in the tube. I have my A15 rods in front of me the tube is ~38.84 ID[43mm od]
and the bit of bar is 1.5" with some tape on it. It's worked OK till now, so I suppose there's not a lot of point replacing it. The SIF cardboard tubes
are fine but the steel rods have always gone through the end caps, maybe they employ a bouncer at SIF to bang the tubes and **** the endcap.

Something like an 'access plug' usually pal. Here they are on Toolstation: http://www.toolstation.com/shop/Plu...t+Weld/sd2885/Solvent+Weld+Access+Plug/p35872

Edit: mind that one is inch and a quarter so small. I had a look about earlier and you can get similar fittings for soil pipe so you could super size if required.

 

[eSCHEn]

http://www.toolstation.com/shop/p34283

40mm push fit socket plug?

As long as you can glue it in a coupler (no reason why you couldn't) then that will work nicely as well. Push fit is probably no use though as the rods exert enough force to pop a push fit off when you rattle them.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Thanks for the ideas lads, Graham's come up trumps. I'll keep this thread in case I ever buy differing rods in the future.