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Start a STIHL blower or any other leaf blower News. A leaf blower a couple circles of plywood a lawn chair and a shower curtain for the skirt.
How to Make a Hovercraft.
How to make a hovercraft with a leaf blower. Simple Leaf Blower Hovercraft Step 1. Minimum area of 10 sq. A gas-powered leaf blower works best for this project and lets you travel anywhere but most leaf blowers.
The area of the base of the hovercraft should be at least 1. Take the 4x4 piece of plywood and find the center using measuring tape. Take a piece of string and attach one end to a pencil and place the other in the center.
Use this method to draw a. Then on the inside of the circle measure the nozzle of the leaf blower and trace. A leaf blower a couple circles of plywood a lawn chair and a shower curtain for the skirt.
WHAT WILL YOU NEED. Find the center of the sheet of plywood. This should be 2 feet from the edges for a 44 sheet.
Drive a screw into the center of the circle about halfway in. Tie a string to it and measure a 2-foot length of. Place the output nozzle of the leaf blower.
How to Make a Hovercraft. Cut a circle from a piece of plywood. Purchase a strong square of plywood and cut a circle 36-48 in diameter.
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A leaf blower from the toolshed Details. The plastic skirting is affixed to the edge of the platform and continues entirely underneath it use duct tape and staples to get a good connection and leave a bit of slack. DIY Instructions Attach the leaf blower with screws and seal the nozzle to the hole you cut in step 3 with duct tape.
As a safety measure you may also stick pipe insulation that comes with its own adhesive around the plywood edge. Now your hovercraft is ready to fire up. You may screw a chair on.
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Start a STIHL blower or any other leaf blower News. Float across the floor on a personal hover board. Hovercraft and the floor which makes it easy to move.
The Bosch All Around You Roadshow hovercraft works like a real hovercraft. How it works Some of the air escapes through six circular holes cut into the sheet material which causes the craft to hover above the floor. FIGURE 2 The leaf blowers impeller rotates at high speed.
For a fun simple project during your leaf blowers off-season build a hover disc. Just about any blower that pushes out at least 400 cfm will work but we recommend using a cordless model. Hovercraft powered by a leaf blower.
4 foot diameter hovercraft instructions. This hovercraft is a true ground-effect machine. It has no wheels.
It glides on a cushion of compressed air supplied by a modified chainsaw engine and a four-bladed wooden prop. Keep the leaf blower or vacuum cleaner face down on the plywood and draw an outline of its mouth. Then cut out the hole and make sure that the leaf blower snugly fits into that hole.
Once inserted the mouth of the blower must be level with the underside of the disk. Stick the Plastic Sheet Skirt. I used a plastic container upside down over the holes and fed the backpack leaf blower into this container.
These holes can be anywhere. You can use wood to build a box or just PVC pipe to get the air from the leaf blower to under the hovercraft. I just used what I had around.
Cut a 4-foot-diameter circle from the plywood. Put your leaf blower in the center and figure out where the nozzle ends up on the circletrace around the nozzle and cut a hole to match so it will.