Daddy Troy: It's a true story. I have a bunch of kids at house when they were all going to start crazy, I threw them all in a minivan and I went over to a local hardware store, and me, bought a bunch of PVC pipe. I came back home and made this giant marble maze, it was a great time. So, it's a great opportunity to your kids, not only to make this, but also go to the hardware store. Today, I'm going to tell you some of the things I learned and the process of making this.
First of all, you want to buy an inch and a half PVC pipe. They come in many sizes, but the inch and a half is ubiquitous and therefore, it is cheaper. Some other things you want to know are that both of these are called elbows. May I see your elbow for a minute? Not that one, that one. These are both called elbows and dude, what angle are these?
Son: 90.
Daddy Troy: 90 degrees. So, you got a good teaching moment. Alright, that is a 90 degree elbows. The one thing that you want to notice about these is these ones are really short elbow and this one is longer elbow, so marbles are going to make it through this one better. This is what your favorite piece out here that you would like to use. This one what do you use that for?
Son: Making jumps.
Daddy Troy: Making jumps? Are we going to try that today?
Son: Yep.
Daddy Troy: We also have one of my favorite one is that this one right here. We use this one a lot for the approach. Right? We use this one to start, which you can also see down it as well.
So, you go to the hardware store and you buy a bunch of eight-foot pipe. You leave a few eight feet long to let the kids have some really long runs, which you can also cut them up. I would like to use a radial arm saw, but you can also use reciprocating saw and the hardware store also sells this little metal coat that you can actually disarm in half by doing a friction method, it's pretty easy.
One thing I noticed right from this one, if you're using a jig saw make some little notches. And it makes it easier for little hands to get these in and out because they tend to be a friction fit and it's pretty hard to move it. So, I notch them like that. Here is another piece right here that you'll need, this is a connector and it's simply connects one piece to another one. So, let's get started, let's go ahead and build our marble maze.
That's all this week for Gear Daddy, a big shout out to Baby Bjorn some of the best baby gear on the planet. Remember, if you make one of these, send us a picture. We want to recognize you on dadlabs.com. We'll see you next week.
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