Making Streamers
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Making Streamers
I am looking for plans to make a fixture to make streamers with an electric drill. I know I saw it some where. My memory is poor and the search can't find it either. HELP!!!![?]
I use a 1/4 inch fender washer where Michael uses the cardboard. It stores easier. I also just use a 1/4 inch drill bit. The streamer kind of screws off the bit when you're done. I also measure a 15 foot strip in my workshop, run the streamer from my seat where the roll of material is, across the room and around the rung on the back of a weighted chair. I take the stretch out of the material, measure it and put a cut 3/4 the way through the material. Then I roll it until the cut gets back. Stretch the ribbon, measure, cut 3/4 through and roll the next one.
Just a word of warning!!! Do not start with 30 ft. This material streaches a lot when you roll it. The tighter you roll it the longer it gets. Start at about 27 or 28 ft, After you get fairly consistent with the thightness of the roll, undo one and measure it, then adjust accordingly. OR just caal Mike Fredricks and order them pre-rolled.
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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by BenJammin</i>
<br />Here's my Spad version of a streamer roller. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
<font size="2">Ben - is there anything you don't make with Coroplast? [:D]</font id="size2">
<br />Here's my Spad version of a streamer roller. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
<font size="2">Ben - is there anything you don't make with Coroplast? [:D]</font id="size2">
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by ZenManiac</i>
<font size="2">Ben - is there anything you don't make with Coroplast? [:D]</font id="size2">
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I'm sure there is. I just can't think of anything right now. [:o)]
<font size="2">Ben - is there anything you don't make with Coroplast? [:D]</font id="size2">
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I'm sure there is. I just can't think of anything right now. [:o)]
I use 1/4" brass tubing and cut a slot of about 1" lengthwise with a dremel. Polish tubing and wind up with electric dril. I lay out the streamers kind of like Bob. 15' out, around a 5 gal ice cream bucket (yummy) and back to me. I mark by attaching a clothspin, which creates a little drag and prevents fouling. For splitting the streamers, I compress the 1.5" roll in a vise between some 1.5" angle iron. After sitting overnight in the vise, I take it out and wrap with masking tape, mark and cut on the bandsaw. Very few ragged edges. It is like cutting walnut, so take it slow. AL Perkins.
My system involved placing an empty wire spool as a turn around point 15 feet from where I'm sitting. I place a pay-out spool next to me run the streamer through the turn-around and back to where I roll the streamers. Before I roll a streamer, I punch a hole in the streamer next to the pay-out spool with a hole punch then I begin winding up the streamer on a 1 inch wood boring spade bit chucked into a cordless drill. When I see the hole approaching me, I stop rolling and cut the streamer at the punched hole. I secure the end and punch a new hole on the next streamer next to the pay-out roll.
The whole apparatus fits in a shoe box and I can roll and entire contest worth of streamers while watching TV.
You can change rolls by taping the end of the emptying spool to the beginning of a new roll. That way you can do the whole job without getting up.
The whole apparatus fits in a shoe box and I can roll and entire contest worth of streamers while watching TV.
You can change rolls by taping the end of the emptying spool to the beginning of a new roll. That way you can do the whole job without getting up.