metal pipe play helicopter

[albrightree]

I love it when I finally get to use something I've been saving in the garage for 20 years.

[37ford4dr]

I love it when I finally get to use something I've been saving in the garage for 20 years.

8 months this house, 13 years last house, 10 years the house before......it was too nice to throw out

[37ford4dr]

i should wrap it up this weekend

[37ford4dr]

painting time just around the corner....

[37ford4dr]

60 degrees today that means time to wrap this up, it has the feel of a firemans arcade ride

bedliner paint for the cockpit area and seam sealer even make my seams look presentable. then the bedliner paint got white top coat.

[Mac's Crew]

Looks Nice...

[37ford4dr]

and done....battery added along with solar panel for charging, will do some final clean up on paint after it has a few more days of drying time

maybe $200 pipe, $50 gauges, $10 lights, $200 16 ga steel, $40 paint
$10 for 5 or 6 cutoff wheels, $15 5lbs of welding rod, $14 seam sealer, $10 2-3 flap wheels.
$42 battery and solar charger

[123weld]

gee, w/ all that work, the thing should fly, i dont see why not. i bet the neighbors are getting jealous. hopefully there cars dont have little orange/white specs on them. heck, if ur adpoting, i can be a grandkid , i got all kinds of stuff that need wiring/fixin/paint , feel fee to come over anytime

[12V71]

No radio headsets?

[William McCormick]

and done....battery added along with solar panel for charging, will do some final clean up on paint after it has a few more days of drying time

maybe $200 pipe, $50 gauges, $10 lights, $200 16 ga steel, $40 paint
$10 for 5 or 6 cutoff wheels, $15 5lbs of welding rod, $14 seam sealer, $10 2-3 flap wheels.
$42 battery and solar charger

It is looking great.

Sincerely,

William McCormick

[37ford4dr]

No radio headsets?

you know my son and i were talking about finding a helmet with those big plug in connectors, that would be cool.

[123weld]

No radio headsets?

well, i think kids get phones about the time they learn how to crawl out of the crib. at least in my area, thats my observation when i go to the store and see a baby in the shopping basket w/ a phone, screaming/crying at his mother to buy him an icey drink. maybe not the poets grandkids, but no seatbelts either

[albrightree]

You might need to add some locking casters so you can get your dollies back. https://www.weldingweb.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

[123weld]

You might need to add some locking casters so you can get your dollies back. https://www.weldingweb.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

or 4 compression springs. kinda like minertature front end coil springs, to give kids a moving like rocking effect

[37ford4dr]

or 4 compression springs. kinda like minertature front end coil springs, to give kids a moving like rocking effect

4 coil springs like those rocking horses at parks on those big *** coil springs.....interesting idea

[albrightree]

Or just one big one in the middle so it can wobble all over the place.

[jfk92]

Or just one big one in the middle so it can wobble all over the place.

Well - if this cool helicopter is going on springs - I do hope that then there is a motor with an unbalanced shaft installed as well - to give it the bouncy vibrating visual effect - as well as the newscaster traffic reporter vocal effect when the kiddos speak - just mount an old bench top grinder underneath and whack off a piece of the wheel LOL

[37ford4dr]

time to wrap it up, it flew to its new home last weekend, now I need to make something for the other half those grand kids.

[SweetMK]

WAY COOL PROJECT!!
I also have 4 grandchildren 3 to 10 years old,,,
One of them saw this somewhere and they just had to have it.

I made it out of two pieces of pallet rack parts (1/8" thick rectangular tube)

We ended up stopping at only 4 tires,, the height of the top two seemed to scare the climbers a little too much,,,

Even the 3 year old can climb it,, they climb it almost daily.
perfect for this COVID stay at home time for the kids!!

We ended up having to use two bolts and four of the giant DIY washers on each pair of tires to keep the tires from rotating,,

[arcflash]

I love the helicopter but every time I look at it I think it needs a set of wheel with a small engine!

[Weldordie]

time to wrap it up, it flew to its new home last weekend, now I need to make something for the other half those grand kids.

That's a lot of work for a lot of grins. Well done!

[tiggen]

This thread delivers.

We lost my MIL's father last year. He flew helicopters in Vietnam, and he loved kids. He would have loved this project!