Saturday, December 12, 2009

Home made parallettes !!!!!



I've been wanting to make a set of these for ages and finally took the initiative ! They are so easy to make its a joke!
All it takes it $32.78 and a couple of hours at most.  

For those interested heres how to do it.
Materials + tools

  • 10 feet of 1 1/2" PVC 
  • 4 elbows
  • 4 T's 
  • 8 end caps
  • PVC glue & primer
  • cloth or rags 
  • sand paper
  • tape measure
  • pencil or marker
  • hand saw
                                                                                      



1: get your 10ft pipe and make a mark at 24, 48, 56, 64, 72, 80, 85, 90, 100, 105, 110 & 115.

2: cut the pipe at each marking - (At home depot they actually had a saw + tape measure so I was able to do it right there in the store. )This will give you two 24" four 8" and eight 5" pieces.


3: next you gota stick all the bits together. I had no idea how to use primer or glue or what order so I just youtubed a video and found out. haha. Its really easy.

4: After you stick em all together you just make sure that you put em on square and thats pretty much it.

5: sand down the handles so that they will hold chalk as otherwise your hands could slip.




I'm definitely going to be making more of these for the gym!





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