Tried PVC pipe!

[TexasGrunt]

I've worked with PVC pipe a bunch in the past and there's one thing that stuck in my mind. That stuff generates static electricity like there's no tomorrow.

So today I tried coating boolits in a scrap piece of 4". Stuff works like a champ! I used it to coat the dirt boolits in my other thread I posted today. I'm going to have to pick up some more 4" and try it with some yellows since they don't tend to work so well.

[Walter Laich]

what's your technique in the pipe?
do you have an end cap(s) on it?

[BNE]

That sounds like a good idea.

[OutHuntn84]

Great idea will have to try that!!!

[OS OK]

I use 4" PVC pipe to connect my table saw to the dust collector system and had to install a ground wire between the collector frame and saw base because it would generate very high static charges as the system was running. Even while grounded when it is on and air is going through carrying some saw dust it will make the hair on your arm stand straight out...you can feel the field on the surface of your skin.
If you could power drive the PVC on a cheap Harbor Freight tumbler drive base, you could have it roll the boolits in AS BB's for a few minutes.
You might be on to something Marine!

[dverna]

I've worked with PVC pipe a bunch in the past and there's one thing that stuck in my mind. That stuff generates static electricity like there's no tomorrow.

So today I tried coating boolits in a scrap piece of 4". Stuff works like a champ! I used it to coat the dirt boolits in my other thread I posted today. I'm going to have to pick up some more 4" and try it with some yellows since they don't tend to work so well.

Brilliant!!

Don Verna

[Plate plinker]

6" because mine has to be bigger.

[runfiverun]

a cat will fit in the 6" pipe with a couple hundred boolits too.

[Reverend Al]

a cat will fit in the 6" pipe with a couple hundred boolits too.

[RogerDat]

That sounds like a really neat idea, will have to give it a try. Shaking lead in a plastic bowl is pretty hard on the plastic. I have had at least a couple crack on me.

[TexasGrunt]

The local ACE store sells these really neat test caps.

Just like this one.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sioux-Chi...&wl13=&veh=sem

Just put one on each end.

Now that I know it works I'll glue a plug or cap on one end. If I want to get fancy I could put a threaded fitting on the other end and use a threaded plug.

[TexasGrunt]

That sounds like a really neat idea, will have to give it a try. Shaking lead in a plastic bowl is pretty hard on the plastic. I have had at least a couple crack on me.

I've cracked about half a dozen. That's what lead me to think about the PVC.

I've got a Lyman wet tumbler. If I had enough money to afford 6" PVC I wouldn't have to do any shaking. But since I'm a poor broke Marine I'll stick with 4". Even that stuff is getting crazy expensive from what I remember it used to cost.

[TrashcanDan]

I'm curious to see the process you use for this.

Been shaking them myself, but I'm interested in how you're doing it.

Walkthrough and pictures? Could be a new more efficient way of doin it.

[TexasGrunt]

I'm curious to see the process you use for this.

Been shaking them myself, but I'm interested in how you're doing it.

Walkthrough and pictures? Could be a new more efficient way of doin it.

All I've done so far is take a scrap piece, put the test caps and use it as you would any other container.

[OS OK]

If you glue a regular pipe cap on one end and then put a reducer on the other end...say a 4" x 3" threaded reducer and screw a 3" pipe plug into that you'd have a way to seal it up with the load inside and get it back out without banging on a loose cap...a cap that might come off while rolling in a rock polisher base.

[scotner]

a cat will fit in the 6" pipe with a couple hundred boolits too.

Warning: The cat may resist this procedure at first.

[Plate plinker]

a cat will fit in the 6" pipe with a couple hundred boolits too.

Nice wise guy, but did you know a coyote will fit in a 12" pipe?

[472x1B/A]

Nice wise guy, but did you know a coyote will fit in a 12" pipe?

This is true. I've caught them with 330's coming out.

[Plate plinker]

I had a rancher friend who would trap them in pipe. What he did was bury the pipe at a steep angle and toss some bait in the bottom. Mr coyote goes in head first but can not back out. Stuck coyote get pulled up by back leg then capped in the head when possible. Another way would be a cap so no more air.

[Budzilla 19]

Pretty good idea with the pvc!! How long is your piece of 4" pvc pipe? I have to try it. As for the coyote trap, with the pipe, I bet that would be a few interesting seconds until said 'yote was dispatched!!!! Glove on one hand, weapon in the other hand, pull him out by his back legs and shoot accurately!! Cause he's going to p*****d when he or she comes out!!! Lol just an observation!!