in yesterday’s video we made a simple
homemade contraption that will convert
plastic two-liter bottles into hundreds
of feet of plastic string we ended up
making over 1,200 feet of this plastic
string so for this video I thought it’d
be fun to bring back our rope making
machine and why are these strands
together to see if we could make
ourselves a genuine plastic rope now the
two main questions I saw in my rope
making video were how do you make a
longer rope and what would happen if you
were to take three fully made ropes and
wind them together on the Rope making
machine well you’re in luck because
today we’re going to answer both of
those questions at the same time we
experiment with our plastic string now
in my original Rope making tutorial I
took these two devices and clamped them
to either end of my workbench and strung
a line between them so if you want to
make your rope longer all you have to do
is increase the distance between them so
for today’s rope making experiment why
don’t we take our spinner hook unit and
clamp it right here to the head of my
workbench I will take the back end unit
and clamp it across the room to a
counter 20 feet away now since we’ve
increased the distance of a rope machine
we’re also going to need to increase the
distance of our guidelines as well so I
went down to the home depot and picked
up a couple packs of 50 foot paracord
this just gives us the option to run our
machine out 50 feet long if we ever feel
like doing that let’s go ahead and bust
out some cords and line our machine
beautiful thing when a plan comes
together
you go okay so good news guys in a
couple of minutes we’ve got our Rope
machine all set up the guide wires are
nice and tight and the slider moves
easily between both ends so just for fun
I went ahead and measured out the
distance between these two contraptions
and it runs about 22 feet and since the
two-liter bottle makes about 95 feet of
rope we’re going to need about one and a
half bottles to make this length of rope
here and you know how it works from here
we’re going to take our string thread it
between all the hooks then take a power
drill and wind them all together so
let’s tuck these suckers up it gets
spinning I think I’m going to start out
with green just because that’s kind of
unique
all right there’s one and a half hooks
done and I don’t think we’re going to
make it back with this and we shouldn’t
need nearly as much just half
[Music]
cool so we’ve got all of our lines
strung and as anticipated it took one
and a half soda bottles to string this
line really curious to see how this
works out now it’s looking really good
so it’s time to hook up our drill get
spinning and see exactly what happens
[Music]
oh wow it’s going already making the
rope that’s good news we might actually
have some success
[Music]
sweet look at that we actually did it we
made a genuine piece of soda bottle rope
now because this is so long I did have
to guide the spacer forward with my hand
at times to release some of the tension
because I felt like the rope was going
to break but once it got within about
four feet it just went on its own no
problem there you have a guys there is
our length of soda bottle cordage now we
start off with about 22 and a half feet
of cords and after it while on the
tension into it this rope turned out
being 18 and a half feet so looks like
it’s shrunk in size by about four feet
if you look really closely you can see
it does actually resemble a three
stranded rope now because the fibers
were a little bit wider than sisal or
any other kind of fiber it gives it a
little bit more of a rough appearance a
rough texture that looks pretty cool
nice shiny and green it’s kind of pretty
this actually worked out pretty well I’m
very encouraged so let’s rig up our
machine and make two more
[Music]
beautiful there it is boys
two down one to go okay I’m gonna
release the tension here
update guys we have finished three
different strands of three stranded rope
and they’re looking pretty good so what
would happen if we rigged these three
lines up to our machine and wound them
again
is it possible to wind a three strand
rope out of three strand rope
this is rope ception
guys I’m excited this is the moan of
truth we have our three strands hooked
up to our Rope making machine to make
another rope and it’s time to pull the
trigger but there is an important thing
we need to keep in mind whenever we’re
making a rope out of three stranded rope
we need to spin the hooks the opposite
direction if we spin the ropes the same
way we did when we originally created
them they’ll actually undo themselves
this time so we need to flip our drill
into reverse and spin the hooks the
opposite way you can see that when we
spin the hooks this direction it
actually tightens the rope it makes it
harder which is exactly what we want we
don’t want it to undo itself we want it
to get tighter will it work
we’re about to find out here we go
[Music]
cool it’s not perfect but that is
looking more like a rope so check that
out guys we took three of our ropes put
them together and made them into another
rope and this stuff is looking pretty
legit it’s a little rough but it looks a
lot more like a rope panels like a rope
and looks incredibly strong now just to
go one step further why don’t we take
this stuff cut it into thirds and run
one more cable three times as thick
that’s kind of cool huh all right let’s
tape it off I’ll give
[Music]
it is success we have done it guys we’ve
made a beautiful three stranded rope out
of three stranded rope out of three
stranded rope the total thickness of our
rope now is nearly half an inch it’s
extremely strong extremely durable and
surprisingly it actually looks like a
rope I’m not sure how practical it is to
make a rope out of plastic bottles we
can definitely see it’s possible so
let’s recap what we’ve done here today
we start off with small strands of
plastic soda bottle string that we made
from a homemade contraption using
nothing but a piece of wood and a
hunting knife we hook those strings up
to a homemade rope making machine and
wound them together to make three
different three stranded ropes which are
very cool by themselves but if that
wasn’t enough we took that rope and cut
it into thirds and made one final rope a
rope within a rope within a rope rope
ception so very very cool to see that
this idea works guys we took plastic
bottles turn them in the string and use
the string to make PE T rope it’s very
very thick very very durable and can
most likely lift hundreds and hundreds
of pounds thanks for joining for this
project today I’ll be looking for you
the next one talk to you then and you
can take this and braid it again and
make another rope Oh it’ll be super
strong
it’s a Christmas wreath you get hit of
plastic bottles just kind of hurts the
hands a little bit hey guys thanks for
watching and remember I’m giving away
prizes now on every new video all you
have to do to qualify is subscribe to my
channel ring the bell and select to be
notified when my next videos get
released the secret link to my giveaways
will be pinned in the comments for the
first 12 hours if you like what I’m
doing show your support right now by
giving this video a big thumbs up and
share with a friend I love you back and
I’ll see you next time
homemade contraption that will convert
plastic two-liter bottles into hundreds
of feet of plastic string we ended up
making over 1,200 feet of this plastic
string so for this video I thought it’d
be fun to bring back our rope making
machine and why are these strands
together to see if we could make
ourselves a genuine plastic rope now the
two main questions I saw in my rope
making video were how do you make a
longer rope and what would happen if you
were to take three fully made ropes and
wind them together on the Rope making
machine well you’re in luck because
today we’re going to answer both of
those questions at the same time we
experiment with our plastic string now
in my original Rope making tutorial I
took these two devices and clamped them
to either end of my workbench and strung
a line between them so if you want to
make your rope longer all you have to do
is increase the distance between them so
for today’s rope making experiment why
don’t we take our spinner hook unit and
clamp it right here to the head of my
workbench I will take the back end unit
and clamp it across the room to a
counter 20 feet away now since we’ve
increased the distance of a rope machine
we’re also going to need to increase the
distance of our guidelines as well so I
went down to the home depot and picked
up a couple packs of 50 foot paracord
this just gives us the option to run our
machine out 50 feet long if we ever feel
like doing that let’s go ahead and bust
out some cords and line our machine
beautiful thing when a plan comes
together
you go okay so good news guys in a
couple of minutes we’ve got our Rope
machine all set up the guide wires are
nice and tight and the slider moves
easily between both ends so just for fun
I went ahead and measured out the
distance between these two contraptions
and it runs about 22 feet and since the
two-liter bottle makes about 95 feet of
rope we’re going to need about one and a
half bottles to make this length of rope
here and you know how it works from here
we’re going to take our string thread it
between all the hooks then take a power
drill and wind them all together so
let’s tuck these suckers up it gets
spinning I think I’m going to start out
with green just because that’s kind of
unique
all right there’s one and a half hooks
done and I don’t think we’re going to
make it back with this and we shouldn’t
need nearly as much just half
[Music]
cool so we’ve got all of our lines
strung and as anticipated it took one
and a half soda bottles to string this
line really curious to see how this
works out now it’s looking really good
so it’s time to hook up our drill get
spinning and see exactly what happens
[Music]
oh wow it’s going already making the
rope that’s good news we might actually
have some success
[Music]
sweet look at that we actually did it we
made a genuine piece of soda bottle rope
now because this is so long I did have
to guide the spacer forward with my hand
at times to release some of the tension
because I felt like the rope was going
to break but once it got within about
four feet it just went on its own no
problem there you have a guys there is
our length of soda bottle cordage now we
start off with about 22 and a half feet
of cords and after it while on the
tension into it this rope turned out
being 18 and a half feet so looks like
it’s shrunk in size by about four feet
if you look really closely you can see
it does actually resemble a three
stranded rope now because the fibers
were a little bit wider than sisal or
any other kind of fiber it gives it a
little bit more of a rough appearance a
rough texture that looks pretty cool
nice shiny and green it’s kind of pretty
this actually worked out pretty well I’m
very encouraged so let’s rig up our
machine and make two more
[Music]
beautiful there it is boys
two down one to go okay I’m gonna
release the tension here
update guys we have finished three
different strands of three stranded rope
and they’re looking pretty good so what
would happen if we rigged these three
lines up to our machine and wound them
again
is it possible to wind a three strand
rope out of three strand rope
this is rope ception
guys I’m excited this is the moan of
truth we have our three strands hooked
up to our Rope making machine to make
another rope and it’s time to pull the
trigger but there is an important thing
we need to keep in mind whenever we’re
making a rope out of three stranded rope
we need to spin the hooks the opposite
direction if we spin the ropes the same
way we did when we originally created
them they’ll actually undo themselves
this time so we need to flip our drill
into reverse and spin the hooks the
opposite way you can see that when we
spin the hooks this direction it
actually tightens the rope it makes it
harder which is exactly what we want we
don’t want it to undo itself we want it
to get tighter will it work
we’re about to find out here we go
[Music]
cool it’s not perfect but that is
looking more like a rope so check that
out guys we took three of our ropes put
them together and made them into another
rope and this stuff is looking pretty
legit it’s a little rough but it looks a
lot more like a rope panels like a rope
and looks incredibly strong now just to
go one step further why don’t we take
this stuff cut it into thirds and run
one more cable three times as thick
that’s kind of cool huh all right let’s
tape it off I’ll give
[Music]
it is success we have done it guys we’ve
made a beautiful three stranded rope out
of three stranded rope out of three
stranded rope the total thickness of our
rope now is nearly half an inch it’s
extremely strong extremely durable and
surprisingly it actually looks like a
rope I’m not sure how practical it is to
make a rope out of plastic bottles we
can definitely see it’s possible so
let’s recap what we’ve done here today
we start off with small strands of
plastic soda bottle string that we made
from a homemade contraption using
nothing but a piece of wood and a
hunting knife we hook those strings up
to a homemade rope making machine and
wound them together to make three
different three stranded ropes which are
very cool by themselves but if that
wasn’t enough we took that rope and cut
it into thirds and made one final rope a
rope within a rope within a rope rope
ception so very very cool to see that
this idea works guys we took plastic
bottles turn them in the string and use
the string to make PE T rope it’s very
very thick very very durable and can
most likely lift hundreds and hundreds
of pounds thanks for joining for this
project today I’ll be looking for you
the next one talk to you then and you
can take this and braid it again and
make another rope Oh it’ll be super
strong
it’s a Christmas wreath you get hit of
plastic bottles just kind of hurts the
hands a little bit hey guys thanks for
watching and remember I’m giving away
prizes now on every new video all you
have to do to qualify is subscribe to my
channel ring the bell and select to be
notified when my next videos get
released the secret link to my giveaways
will be pinned in the comments for the
first 12 hours if you like what I’m
doing show your support right now by
giving this video a big thumbs up and
share with a friend I love you back and
I’ll see you next time
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