What is the best thing you ever made with PVC?

Hello folks
Nice site .
I really enjoy the PVC projects with only one exception.
The PVC tator Gun .
Being a professional pyrotech I have alway got to deal with people who want to save a few pennies and shoot out of PVC. This is not only a BAD idea it can be deadly, the same goes for tator guns or anything involving extreme pressure.
When PVC fails it shatters in dager like pieces . As a demonstration in the safety classes I teach we put a class C shell in a 2" pvc pipe upside down , The pipe is then placed in either an HDPE or very thick walled cardboard tube and fired.
In three such demonstrations using the cardboard tubs (3/4 inch thick walls )
shard of the PVC had penatrated to the out side of the card board.
The shard are shaped like spear points and do not show up well on xrays .
There have been a number of people seriously wounded by such shards from tator guns exploding in their hands.
UV degrades PVC making it brittle , the flash burn of most propellants product UV light so its not a question of when the PVC will fail but when.
Please do not use PVC for such devices there are much better options for such things.

Like what?

The other day I passed by a house that had a yard fence made out of PVC and treated landscape timber. They had placed the landscape timber into the ground to use for fence post and then drilled 3 holes in it for the pvc to run through. It looked very neat they way they had it all set up.

Also, we lost a young man about 3 years ago to one of those pvc potato canons. He and several friends were shooting one off when it exploded sending pvc shrapnel into his head. He left behind a young wife and a couple of toddlers.

Not too fancy but here's our tomato structure made with PVC. The trellis' are made from a sheet of vinyl trellis material, hinged at the top with PVC on the inside for "legs". I also use short PVC pieces with a notch cut in the top to hold netting over my seedlings right after planting.

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Garden frame and yard fencing. I was broke and desperate, but surprisingly enough a fence made of pvc and deer netting kept deer out of my front yard for years! they are on to me now, but all my plantings are mature, so I am thinking about taking it down and using it somewhere else.

If you are ever building a hoop structure with it in the rain (don't ask) DON'T bend over it to put the connectors on! I had a piece slide out of my hand and pop me in the eye so hard I literally saw stars like in a cartoon! Had a nice black eye to explain away for about ten days, lol.

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