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My dad won't buy me one, so I want to build one. I know that there is a brush like thing, a conveyor, a motor, and a metal sphere, but how exactly do you build one? And what are the materials you need? Will I be able to obtain them from the house or do I have to order anything? Thanks! :D
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Hey there,
There are a lot of videos and how to's out there. I'm not an expert on this but it basically consists of two brushes which can just be frayed stranded wire, two rollers neg. and positive material and a belt which can be a giant rubber band or surgical tubing.
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There was a great article in the old Scientific American in the experimenter columns about homemade VDGs. A Google search should point it out. If you cannot find it let me know I may have it here, somewhere, way back there, perhaps....
Note to self: need to work on a usable way to locate old magasines in the cellar.
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It all depends on your household ;) Acouple of your mums SS mixing bowls and your dads tig welder will make the sphere. A down pipe, an old television, a motor of some kind and some roller pulleys (maybe out of an old printer and hacked to suit). In fact, I saw someone recently make a sheet metal roller out of an old printer, handy things to scavange. It gets to a point though that the more you read about them, the better you will want to make yours. Cost depends on how much you want it.
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Can you build a VDG out of household materials and out of materials less than 20 bucks?
