Justme

I looked at my magazines on the bookshelf and noticed that they were leaning and bending, so I decided to fix the problem. I spent 20 minutes in the workshop and built this magazine holder. It works great. You can make it as wide as you want or as narrow. Now I am thinking Imight make one for my manuals for all of the equipment I have bought over the years. Anyone want to share other uses for their coroplast besides building SPADs?

mclina

I don't have a photo of it, but a couple of years ago my daughter used some for an inventor's fair project.

It was a combination laundry bin/clothes sorter, called the Super Laundry Basket 2000. It had about a 12" square by 24" high bin on one side with an opening on the top, and a 12" square by 24" high shelf section on the other side, with about 3-4 shelves for putting your folded laundry when you were done washing it.

She didn't win any prizes with it, and her partner ended up keeping it when they were done []

foodstick

It actually makes a pretty good clean surface to lay on the floor when you have to do auto repairs..wipe it off and slide it out of the way when you are done.  easier to slide around on than dirty cement also...

I have also made sort of folders out of it to keep plan templates flat and straight while storing them..

OzMo

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Ihad a bunch of scraps and misc signs laying around. I used skewers and 3" deck screws and made up a 48" long by 32 " wide by 24" tallbalsa storage boxwith 16 bins. Skewers for butt joining coro and screws for securing the shelfs to the outer sides.

Justme

It's amazing stuff, isn't it? For me in my small town in Indiana, getting my hands on some Coroplast is easier said than done. I did finally find a place in my town that will sell me 4 x 8 sheets for $15. I treat the stuff like gold, so I am very sparing with the stuff.

Deadeye

How about a field box? Light, strong, fuel and weather proof, and all the other great stuff that goes along with coro.

draftman1

nice boxe there deadeye, did you ever post plans for it?

mustangman177

Deadeye:

Way tooooo cool on the flight box !!!!!!!

Definitely need plans for this

Thanks

Cary

Deadeye

Sorry guys, no plans, but i will reveal my folding methods in the pictures. All it takes is a little imagination. I used a paper template to get an understanding how it would all fold up on itself. The only wood on the box is the supports for the copper pipe handle. The handle, and the steel fuel can are both powder coated. I epoxied the exposed wood with a red dye made for epoxy. The fuel cell and battery cell interlock to eachother, and that's all I have to take to the flight line. Polyglued and woodpeckered all joints and seams. I have a nylon cover it, and the starter box folds out to provide a rain barrier.

Deadeye

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Justme

That is awesome. You have really got my creative juices flowing. Imay have to think outside the box now (pardon the pun).

Marian

Really nice and creative solution. Congratulations.

deuxchevaux

Coroplast is great for prototyping when you are "eco-modding" (aero-modding) Looks kinda funny but how could you complain about 95mpg at 65mph cruise not to mention all the special attention you'll get on the road. LOL.!!!

http://www.aerocivic.com/

http://ecomodder.com

Villa

There may be different grades of the plastic material used to make the Coroplast that we are referring to. I saw some containers one person could easily carry that were made for use by the Post Office. The material was heavier than what we use on our planes. The boxes were very durable and seemed to be long lasting. At our club we used a sheet of 4MM Coroplast to serve as the back of our radio Impound shelf/stand. About 2 years later some parts of the Coroplast had deteriorated; turned to mush. The stand is outdoors but not in direct sunlight, except for a few hours at sun-up and sun-down. .

ergocentric

I bought several sheets of translucent at the local Home Despot.
I tie wrapped some to my balcony railing for privacy, and use it regularly on my renovation to provide 'windows' when I need to board something up or cover scaffolding.
I also wrapped the bottom eight feet of my tv antenna tower to keep people from climbing it.

and build planes, stands, toolbox separators...

foodstick

the scraps make good material to mix auto body bondo on,, just found that out lately.

ThunderBirds

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I like this one...a Coroplast Full Fairing for recumbent bicycles.
http://www.recumbents.com/wisil/pauljones/

foodstick

You are going to laugh, but the FIRST thing I built out of coroplast was a front shell for my recumbant.. I am not sure if mine was real efficient. but I sure got alot of looks, and missed the breeze! It was also a little scary not being able to see the ground up front.

ThunderBirds

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Foodstick, the front fairing makes perfect sense to me if it covers the feet and cranks. I did the same thing on my Rans VRex only used the bubbled Plexiglas and added a coro tail fairing/storage. This increased my average speed by 2.3 mph for the same energy used and still let me see the ground ahead of me. Also on the Diamond frame Mountain bike I experimented with a front fairing and rear tail box for extreme endurance races...works pretty good.

foodstick

I know they are effective, but I think my design was possibly poor, my bike had a front suspension and I built it to cover that as well. My friends bike (with fairing) would just leave me on hills. However he had the narrow steering up top, and mine was the wider below seat steering..so that obviously has to be considered as more drag ...