How To Build A Wind Sculpture (Secret to Spin Revealed)

hey everybody this is done with our clear road and in this video we're gonna talk about how to make those really cool wind sculptures spin let's get started [Music] okay so let's start with a quick rundown of materials I'm gonna use an 8 foot piece of inch and a quarter by oh four nine wall a four foot piece of inch and a half by 0.95 wall for the inch and a quarter I'm actually using a washer that fits on there nicely and then for the inch and a half pipe I'm using the drop from a inch and a half hole saw bit which actually makes that right around an inch and three-eighths so it fits nicely on the end of that pipe and now for the piece that resists stones this is the magic that makes it happen a thrust bearing there are three components to a thrust bearing all right of course you have your bearings which are encased in this nice little circular piece of metal you have a bottom plate that has a groove and your top plate also has a groove so when those bearings sit in the groove it is a really nice smooth gliding feature that you can add to your wind sculpture [Music] okay so the next part after you've got the two tops welded on you tube pipes you want to take one of the top or bottom pieces of your thrust bearing and on the opposite side that doesn't have the groove you want to lay that on top of your inch and a quarter pipe now if you have the capability and the ability skill to TIG this to the top of that pipe you can do that I don't trust my tagging abilities when dealing with something this might nude so I'm going to cheat a little bit and I'm gonna use a product that is it's like it's a VHB tape it's a double-sided super sticky tape and I'm going to put that on the backside of one of these plates and that's what we're gonna do next okay so I forgot to mention make sure that you clean the metal surface before you actually add the VHB tape I did that on the little plate but I'm using an acetone just to kind of get all the grease off and and you know just kind of clean that up once that's done take your plate peel off that backing and then do your very best to make sure that you can get that as close to Center as possible stick that on like I said VHB tape it's a super strong tape I actually did an in shop test on the tape where I put two pieces together hung 40 pounds on it and it stayed there for pretty much most of the day but then the shot got to be 110 degrees and I think the heat just kind of melted everything so it fell apart but something like this it's going to be fine okay so take the remaining parts of your thrust bearing and place those on top of the plate that you just added to the top pole make sure you peel off the backing of your top bearing okay so the next part is the design part you know what kind of wind blades do you want you can get this decorative as you want now on this project I'm on a little bit of a time crunch so I'm gonna go somewhat simple but you're gonna need at least a quarter inch round bar that you can attach your blade to that is then going to attach to the inch and a half pipe and then you weld those in and around and that will help spin it so I'm making a simple oval and then I'm going to cup it to kind of help catch the wind now the design you choose may be determined by the method in which you have to cut it out you can use shears labor-intensive kind of hard on the hands after a while it depends on the thickness of the material but it's a cheap easy way to cut the material if you don't mind spinning say 30 40 bucks you can go to Harbor Freight or your other tool supplier and you can actually get a metal shear it's electric and so you can rough cut your shapes out and then go back with the grinder and clean them up I just got myself a CNC machine so that's what I'm gonna use I'm gonna draw it up and then I'm gonna cut them out so I can do this in bulk and do this quick so to help get that cupped look and because we're doing so many of them I'm gonna make a quick jig that I can grind out the wood into a little bit of a bowl shape and then I could put the plate inside you there with a hammer pounded out and then I can get pretty consistent with everything I'm doing you can also use a a heavy-duty sandbag if that's what you have available and maybe like a rubber mallet that will help get that shape as well one of the tools that I'm going to use is the arbor tech ball gouge I picked this up at a local wood supplier it goes right onto the four inch angle grinder and it will take away a lot of this wood in a short amount of time which is really kind of what I want to do right now [Music] all right so this is going to help rough out that shade see that gets me pretty rough I can go back and clean that up after that so I don't have a bland machine hammer but I do have this little English wheel and it's gonna how to help take out some of those hammer marks that that are in there make sure that you really watch your fingers on this thing because it will chew it up if you're not real careful that cleans it up a little bit so I have all the little wind blades cleaned up all the little dent marks kind of out of it so as I mentioned I'm gonna use a quarter inch rod and because I want to have maybe about a 24 inch wide wind sculpture I'm gonna use a ten inch quarter inch rod and then that's going to get welded so that's gonna bring me out to you know probably about fourteen inches so it's probably a little about 28 inches wide I want to go down the side of that four inch inch and a half pipe and I want to make sure that I kind of spiral down so I want to give myself kind of a registration mark and to do a straight line on a piece of round pipe I'm going to show you an easy way to do that so I'm just gonna use a piece of soapstone just to kind of put a mark right here on my pipe and then I'm gonna take a piece of angle iron and I'm gonna rest that right on to the pipe and that's gonna hold nice and tight along the pipe and basically I can just run my soapstone all the way down and that's going to give me a nice straight registration line and that will help me figure out exactly where I want to put everything on the pipe [Music] okay all of the blades are done now I just need to put them on to the upright pole four foot pull the spinny part and then we'll be ready to spin it and test it so to space everything out properly I've got ten that pieces per side I dropped down two inches from the top and that's where I'm gonna start my first blade so then I take that remaining area and I go 46 inches because this was 48 I knocked off two so there's 46 46 divided by ten is four and a half four point six so then I just put a mark at every four and a half and because I want them to spiral from this point here as I go down I offset by a quarter inch each time quarter half three quarter one and so on and so forth and then I'm going to repeat that process on the other side so it looks like a spiral or a corkscrew as it turns so once you get one side tacked in you want to make sure that everything is kind of lining up nice and even before you actually go ahead and fully weld everything in place [Music] thanks for taking the time to watch this video it's greatly appreciated and I want to give a quick shout out to my patreon supporters Barry and Marlene rush Judy cloth EA and fun kiss artistic creations they helped make videos like this possible see you in the next video [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Channel: Artfully Rogue

Views: 174,459

Keywords: artfully rogue, wind sculpture, thrust bearing, wind sculpture kinetic, kinetic wind spinner, kinetic wind sculpture, wind art, metal kinetic wind sculpture, how to build a wind spinner, diy wind spin

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Length: 9min 56sec (596 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 07 2019