You don’t have to buy baby food. You can make, and even grow, your own. With a home vegetable garden and some fruits, it’s possible to make delicious, nutritious, and safe baby food at home.
07.07.2023 - 21:43 / hometalk.com
I love the sound of wind chimes but wow they're rather expensive to purchase! So, I said to my husband, «Let's try to make some homemade wind chimes out of pipes.» Maybe it'll be so easy we'll make a whole yardful of DIY wind chimes!
I had no clue it wasn't as simple as cutting some metal tubes and stringing them to a wooden circle.
Interestingly, you can purchase individual wind chime components—the chime pipes and the wood pieces—and put together a wind chime with no tools needed. I love options, don't you?
Here is how we did it:
We purchased a 5-foot long piece of ¾" conduit pipe in the electrical section of the store. We cut it with a conduit pipe cutter but a hacksaw would probably work also.
To get chimes that sound good together, you can search the internet to find a variety of tones and required lengths. This is what we went with along with the precise lengths they are cut:
Once cut, use a deburring tool on the ends to remove sharp edges and lightly sand off any wording your pipe may have on it.
Next, drill the holes to hang them and again they need to be precisely placed.
File any sharp edges.
You'll need 3 pieces of wood which you can purchase at the hobby store or go cheap and cut from scraps of wood you already have.
The shapes and measurements we went with are as follows:
Stain or paint your wood, which will help seal it from the elements. I sprayed mine with clear spray paint also.
Screw in an eye hook in the center of the clanger both top and bottom and another in the center of the butterfly, as shown.
On what will be the underneath side of the chime holder you'll need an eye hook for each of the 5 chimes. Space them precisely and evenly apart.
Slide short pieces of shrink tube onto nylon twine. If you center them
You don’t have to buy baby food. You can make, and even grow, your own. With a home vegetable garden and some fruits, it’s possible to make delicious, nutritious, and safe baby food at home.
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