let’s take a look at how to build your
very own floating faucet a cool optical
illusion that makes it look like a
faucet head is floating on a stream of
water
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
we got a common request from many Jim
Roubini and I’m almost certainly
pronouncing that incorrectly but it was
asking if we could please make a magic
slash floating faucet yes we can and
we’re going to show you how to do it
here’s that our sinking a clear plastic
tube will lead from a small pump up to
our faucet above the water flowing down
out of the faucet should cover the tube
giving the illusion that the water
itself is holding the faucet up to get
started we’re going to need a small
submersible water pump a spigot or
faucet I prefer the kind that looks like
it’s a garden hose attachment some 1/2
inch outer diameter clear tube this is
rigid tube not flexible vinyl this one’s
acrylic you might be able to find it in
polycarbonate as well and a bucket or
any other waterproof container that’s
about the right size and shape and
matches the look that you want for your
fountain now my bucket is also full of
these clear glass beads and I’m using
these because I like the look of it
there’s other things you can use if you
want to use just natural rocks you can
do that it looks good in all sorts of
different colors I do have a reason I’m
using the clear glass and I’ll get to
that later
but there’s lots of options like I was
saying our pump is gonna end up going
down inside of this bucket but we don’t
want our cord coming up over the edge so
like we did with our small vortex
fountain we’re going to drill a small
hole into the bucket we’re going to cut
our cord and then solder it back
together once we’ve run it through the
bucket for this chord we’re going to
solder one of the sides together but the
other side we’re going to leave
unattached because we want to add an
inline switch that lets us turn the pump
let’s trim off the extra cords so it
gets divided this little piece of
plastic is designed to keep the two
pieces separate this other side that we
poke on top of that has prongs on both
sides and these are designed to stab
through the rubber of the cord and make
now we’ve got our pump inside of our
bucket the cord comes out to the outside
and eventually we are going to stop that
hole up entirely we’re gonna use some
hot glue for that but it’s not time to
do that quite yet because we don’t want
to limit the movement on the pump so
let’s grab our 1/2 inch outer diameter
acrylic tube and let’s figure out the
length that we need faucets gonna be
somewhere up here we can fit this down
now the pump I’m using it actually fits
perfectly over the nozzle that comes
with the pump it kind of snaps into
place even it’s a watertight seal it’s
just what we’re looking for so we have
to figure out how high we want our
spigot to go I mean if we put it up too
high then the pumps not gonna have
enough power to really get the water all
the way up there if we put it too low
it’s not really going to look very cool
so we’re just going for a few inches
above the bucket now we’re gonna use a
hacksaw to carefully cut that off our
tube cut but acrylic is pretty fragile
stuff and right at the end it did crack
just a little bit we’re gonna use a belt
sander to just smooth that off give us a
nice clean edge that doesn’t have any
ridges in it like that
there’s the edge of the tube and we’re
gonna want to glue that right down into
the middle of the spigot but once we’ve
glued it down it’s gonna be sealing off
a lot of opening and we want water to be
able to come out of the top and sort of
pour back down like it was coming out of
the spigot itself so what we need to do
now is drill some small holes in the top
of the tube we’ve got quite a small
drill bit here and we’re now going to
drill eight holes into the top of this
tube and we’re gonna try and make it
really close to the top maybe only an
eighth of an inch away
of course since we do want all the holes
spaced evenly directly across from each
other we’re gonna drill right down
through one side and then out the other
running a little bit of sandpaper over
the top helps remove any burrs and it
roughs up the plastic just a little bit
to help the glue bonds to it now we need
to attach this onto our faucet and to do
that we’re going to be using some
two-part epoxy
this is jb weld the quick version of it
that takes five to six minutes secured
instead of four or five hours you don’t
have to use this kind of glue other
strong types of glue should work as well
but I like this stuff because it is
glue to get about as high as it can get
without reaching the holes that’ll help
the epoxy is cured which means the
faucet is now holding itself onto the
acrylic tube without any assistance
doesn’t fall off not really wiggling
just what we want so now we need to
attach this onto our pump and as I was
saying before this size of acrylic tube
this is half-inch outer diameter tube
actually fits just perfectly onto the
nozzle that came with this particular
pump which is pretty convenient now I’m
holding the pump but I’m not touching
the tube or the faucet itself and as you
can see it stays up right where we want
it one other thing that we want to do
before we add all of our stones back in
is I have this battery-powered
waterproof LED light things pretty nifty
it’s controlled by remote control and
you can just change the colors it’s not
going to be hurt by being underwater and
it is battery-powered so you don’t need
any sort of cord running to it we’re
actually going to take this light and
put it underneath our pump so it’s just
resting on the bottom of our bucket and
the pump is going to sit on top of it
now that we have that there we can see
how much of our cord we need for it to
be able to reach so at this point we can
take some hot glue and seal off the hole
with the hot glue seal in place we can
now put the light down at the bottom of
the bucket the pump on top of the light
attach our pipe and faucet on top of the
pump and then start piling the stones in
because that’s what’s gonna fold
everything in place now let’s add some
water how much water you add is kind of
up to you I like to bring it up to just
below the surface of the stones random
fact a leaky faucet that drips at the
rate of one drip per second can waste
more than 3000 gallons a year which is
equal to like 180 showers okay we’ve got
our bucket plugged in let’s turn it on
and see how this goes now ideally the
water will come up out the holes in the
top of the pipes and distribute
themselves around the sides
sometimes I’ve found that the water kind
of doesn’t stick very well to the pipe
and you kind of need to just touch it to
get it start flowing everywhere let’s
see what we can get hmm didn’t need much
encouragement at all perfect that means
we did a pretty good job of lining
everything up so the water is being
distributed evenly all around and look
at this we’ve now got water flowing out
of the faucet and that’s what’s holding
the faucet up in the first place that’s
it’s a really cool like just illusion it
makes it look like oh the water is
holding with us pick it up very fun to
look at one of the main reasons I like
using these glass stones is that the
signal from my remote control has an
easier time getting down into the bucket
so I can turn it on now it’s really hard
to see in this bright daylight let’s
take it somewhere a little bit more
[Music]
one more small modification we can make
is to take some very fine grit sandpaper
and lightly gently sand the tube from
top to bottom this should leave some
very light white marks on the outside
which can help enhance the illusion of
flowing water it’s not a major
difference but you may decide you like
that look a little bit better
once again I’m sure I’m saying this
wrong but Mina chim ro Dini thank you
for your suggestion this is a fun build
a fun project and it’s definitely
something that you can do at home it
doesn’t take too long and it doesn’t
cost that much check the links in the
description for where to buy some of
these pieces online mr. Rodino check
your youtube inbox we’re gonna be
sending you 25 bucks guys remember if
you’ve got any cool ideas of things you
want to see us do let us know down in
the comments and if we use your idea to
make a video we’ll send you $25 mmm hose
water guys it is subscriber appreciation
giveaway time we’ve got this cool king
of random snapback hat and we’re going
to be giving it away to one lucky fan
all you have to do to enter is first be
subscribe to the channel and second to
make a post on instagram showing a
picture or video of a king of random
project that you have done and tag us
with hashtag the king of random will go
through the post on Instagram and choose
a winner to receive this hat we’re gonna
be doing more of these giveaways going
forward so keep watching for more
chances to win cool stuff we’ll have
hats we’ll have cool merch and we may
have some larger ticket items hopefully
some cool electronics games cameras
we’ll see guys that’s not the end we’ve
got more for you to see the box up at
the top will transport you directly to
our last video you should go check that
out the box at the bottom will show you
what youtube thinks you should be
watching next and if you are not a
subscriber to our channel yet hit the
bomb in the middle to become one don’t
forget to ring that Bell and we will see you in the next one talk to you then
very own floating faucet a cool optical
illusion that makes it look like a
faucet head is floating on a stream of
water
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
we got a common request from many Jim
Roubini and I’m almost certainly
pronouncing that incorrectly but it was
asking if we could please make a magic
slash floating faucet yes we can and
we’re going to show you how to do it
here’s that our sinking a clear plastic
tube will lead from a small pump up to
our faucet above the water flowing down
out of the faucet should cover the tube
giving the illusion that the water
itself is holding the faucet up to get
started we’re going to need a small
submersible water pump a spigot or
faucet I prefer the kind that looks like
it’s a garden hose attachment some 1/2
inch outer diameter clear tube this is
rigid tube not flexible vinyl this one’s
acrylic you might be able to find it in
polycarbonate as well and a bucket or
any other waterproof container that’s
about the right size and shape and
matches the look that you want for your
fountain now my bucket is also full of
these clear glass beads and I’m using
these because I like the look of it
there’s other things you can use if you
want to use just natural rocks you can
do that it looks good in all sorts of
different colors I do have a reason I’m
using the clear glass and I’ll get to
that later
but there’s lots of options like I was
saying our pump is gonna end up going
down inside of this bucket but we don’t
want our cord coming up over the edge so
like we did with our small vortex
fountain we’re going to drill a small
hole into the bucket we’re going to cut
our cord and then solder it back
together once we’ve run it through the
bucket for this chord we’re going to
solder one of the sides together but the
other side we’re going to leave
unattached because we want to add an
inline switch that lets us turn the pump
let’s trim off the extra cords so it
gets divided this little piece of
plastic is designed to keep the two
pieces separate this other side that we
poke on top of that has prongs on both
sides and these are designed to stab
through the rubber of the cord and make
now we’ve got our pump inside of our
bucket the cord comes out to the outside
and eventually we are going to stop that
hole up entirely we’re gonna use some
hot glue for that but it’s not time to
do that quite yet because we don’t want
to limit the movement on the pump so
let’s grab our 1/2 inch outer diameter
acrylic tube and let’s figure out the
length that we need faucets gonna be
somewhere up here we can fit this down
now the pump I’m using it actually fits
perfectly over the nozzle that comes
with the pump it kind of snaps into
place even it’s a watertight seal it’s
just what we’re looking for so we have
to figure out how high we want our
spigot to go I mean if we put it up too
high then the pumps not gonna have
enough power to really get the water all
the way up there if we put it too low
it’s not really going to look very cool
so we’re just going for a few inches
above the bucket now we’re gonna use a
hacksaw to carefully cut that off our
tube cut but acrylic is pretty fragile
stuff and right at the end it did crack
just a little bit we’re gonna use a belt
sander to just smooth that off give us a
nice clean edge that doesn’t have any
ridges in it like that
there’s the edge of the tube and we’re
gonna want to glue that right down into
the middle of the spigot but once we’ve
glued it down it’s gonna be sealing off
a lot of opening and we want water to be
able to come out of the top and sort of
pour back down like it was coming out of
the spigot itself so what we need to do
now is drill some small holes in the top
of the tube we’ve got quite a small
drill bit here and we’re now going to
drill eight holes into the top of this
tube and we’re gonna try and make it
really close to the top maybe only an
eighth of an inch away
of course since we do want all the holes
spaced evenly directly across from each
other we’re gonna drill right down
through one side and then out the other
running a little bit of sandpaper over
the top helps remove any burrs and it
roughs up the plastic just a little bit
to help the glue bonds to it now we need
to attach this onto our faucet and to do
that we’re going to be using some
two-part epoxy
this is jb weld the quick version of it
that takes five to six minutes secured
instead of four or five hours you don’t
have to use this kind of glue other
strong types of glue should work as well
but I like this stuff because it is
glue to get about as high as it can get
without reaching the holes that’ll help
the epoxy is cured which means the
faucet is now holding itself onto the
acrylic tube without any assistance
doesn’t fall off not really wiggling
just what we want so now we need to
attach this onto our pump and as I was
saying before this size of acrylic tube
this is half-inch outer diameter tube
actually fits just perfectly onto the
nozzle that came with this particular
pump which is pretty convenient now I’m
holding the pump but I’m not touching
the tube or the faucet itself and as you
can see it stays up right where we want
it one other thing that we want to do
before we add all of our stones back in
is I have this battery-powered
waterproof LED light things pretty nifty
it’s controlled by remote control and
you can just change the colors it’s not
going to be hurt by being underwater and
it is battery-powered so you don’t need
any sort of cord running to it we’re
actually going to take this light and
put it underneath our pump so it’s just
resting on the bottom of our bucket and
the pump is going to sit on top of it
now that we have that there we can see
how much of our cord we need for it to
be able to reach so at this point we can
take some hot glue and seal off the hole
with the hot glue seal in place we can
now put the light down at the bottom of
the bucket the pump on top of the light
attach our pipe and faucet on top of the
pump and then start piling the stones in
because that’s what’s gonna fold
everything in place now let’s add some
water how much water you add is kind of
up to you I like to bring it up to just
below the surface of the stones random
fact a leaky faucet that drips at the
rate of one drip per second can waste
more than 3000 gallons a year which is
equal to like 180 showers okay we’ve got
our bucket plugged in let’s turn it on
and see how this goes now ideally the
water will come up out the holes in the
top of the pipes and distribute
themselves around the sides
sometimes I’ve found that the water kind
of doesn’t stick very well to the pipe
and you kind of need to just touch it to
get it start flowing everywhere let’s
see what we can get hmm didn’t need much
encouragement at all perfect that means
we did a pretty good job of lining
everything up so the water is being
distributed evenly all around and look
at this we’ve now got water flowing out
of the faucet and that’s what’s holding
the faucet up in the first place that’s
it’s a really cool like just illusion it
makes it look like oh the water is
holding with us pick it up very fun to
look at one of the main reasons I like
using these glass stones is that the
signal from my remote control has an
easier time getting down into the bucket
so I can turn it on now it’s really hard
to see in this bright daylight let’s
take it somewhere a little bit more
[Music]
one more small modification we can make
is to take some very fine grit sandpaper
and lightly gently sand the tube from
top to bottom this should leave some
very light white marks on the outside
which can help enhance the illusion of
flowing water it’s not a major
difference but you may decide you like
that look a little bit better
once again I’m sure I’m saying this
wrong but Mina chim ro Dini thank you
for your suggestion this is a fun build
a fun project and it’s definitely
something that you can do at home it
doesn’t take too long and it doesn’t
cost that much check the links in the
description for where to buy some of
these pieces online mr. Rodino check
your youtube inbox we’re gonna be
sending you 25 bucks guys remember if
you’ve got any cool ideas of things you
want to see us do let us know down in
the comments and if we use your idea to
make a video we’ll send you $25 mmm hose
water guys it is subscriber appreciation
giveaway time we’ve got this cool king
of random snapback hat and we’re going
to be giving it away to one lucky fan
all you have to do to enter is first be
subscribe to the channel and second to
make a post on instagram showing a
picture or video of a king of random
project that you have done and tag us
with hashtag the king of random will go
through the post on Instagram and choose
a winner to receive this hat we’re gonna
be doing more of these giveaways going
forward so keep watching for more
chances to win cool stuff we’ll have
hats we’ll have cool merch and we may
have some larger ticket items hopefully
some cool electronics games cameras
we’ll see guys that’s not the end we’ve
got more for you to see the box up at
the top will transport you directly to
our last video you should go check that
out the box at the bottom will show you
what youtube thinks you should be
watching next and if you are not a
subscriber to our channel yet hit the
bomb in the middle to become one don’t
forget to ring that Bell and we will see you in the next one talk to you then
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