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General Category => Fabrication => Topic started by: oinesra on November 10, 2009, 05:19:45 PM

Title: silicone charge pipe/ coupler- half failure
Post by: oinesra on November 10, 2009, 05:19:45 PM
everyplace online sells 2" 90 degree silicone couplers for 16 bucks. fuck that. plus what i need is a set of 90s in series. so i decided to make some. after i had already 'made' this one, i started having better ideas, so this basically was a good learning process.

went to harbor freight and picked up some self-fusing silicone tape on sale foe 1.17 each. its rated up to 500 degrees.
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got some plastic bags to make a mold  from.
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this is what i want to make from silicone

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making the mold,. this is about the time i realized i should have got some foam rings from walmart. fuck it, keep going
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finished the bitch up with a scrap of silicone coupler on one end and coated with wax for easy removal.
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i fucked up and some how erased all the pics of winding this bitch up. but i laied down 3 rolls, and ended up warping half to tight, so it was like 1.5 inch inside diameter. i trimmed it down and jammed the pink 90 into the thing. wrapped the silicone part in a few coils made of a wire coat hanger. then laied down the other rolls of silicone over it.

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pulled the plug
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fit like a charm.
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not bad for 20 mins of work, and if i had got the foam rings i could have had perfectly round tubes. i will redo this one day, and i might just do all the charge pipe in silicone with either metal coils like this one, or do the core of the coupler with liquid silicone and fiberglass tape.























here is the extra that i fucked up.
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Title: Re: silicone charge pipe/ coupler- half failure
Post by: oinesra on November 10, 2009, 05:34:13 PM
it SHOULD be able to. the silicone part is about 1/4 inch thich and ribbed with coat hanger coils. but i will find out soon enough.
Title: Re: silicone charge pipe/ coupler- half failure
Post by: brine04 on November 10, 2009, 05:37:20 PM
Why not just do it in steel or aluminum?
Title: Re: silicone charge pipe/ coupler- half failure
Post by: oinesra on November 10, 2009, 05:44:49 PM
no welder.
Title: Re: silicone charge pipe/ coupler- half failure
Post by: walter on November 10, 2009, 05:51:18 PM
Quote from: oinesra on November 10, 2009, 05:44:49 PM
no welder.

you can do it without welder .
Title: Re: silicone charge pipe/ coupler- half failure
Post by: CSaddict on November 10, 2009, 06:04:49 PM
My time is worth more than the $16, but A+ for the effort.  :noel:
Title: Re: silicone charge pipe/ coupler- half failure
Post by: oinesra on November 10, 2009, 09:33:01 PM
how many of your minutes are worth 16 dollars
Title: Re: silicone charge pipe/ coupler- half failure
Post by: CSaddict on November 10, 2009, 10:00:16 PM
Less than 20  :P
Title: Re: silicone charge pipe/ coupler- half failure
Post by: turbob16hatch on November 10, 2009, 10:06:46 PM
Quote from: CSaddict on November 10, 2009, 06:04:49 PM
My time is worth more than the $16, but A+ for the effort.  :noel:
Title: Re: silicone charge pipe/ coupler- half failure
Post by: oinesra on November 10, 2009, 10:07:39 PM
JO only? Or yes to gay stuff?
Title: Re: silicone charge pipe/ coupler- half failure
Post by: TTC on November 10, 2009, 10:22:06 PM
You posts instill faith in the masses.
Title: Re: silicone charge pipe/ coupler- half failure
Post by: toyolla86 on November 11, 2009, 02:16:21 AM
i freakin love this.

hahaha. perfect for those crazy bends we always need.
Title: Re: silicone charge pipe/ coupler- half failure
Post by: Minor Threat on November 11, 2009, 10:19:56 PM
Putting the real in realhomemadeturbo
Title: Re: silicone charge pipe/ coupler- half failure
Post by: TTC on November 11, 2009, 10:21:30 PM
Test this shit already
Title: Re: silicone charge pipe/ coupler- half failure
Post by: crxvtec91 on November 12, 2009, 12:41:43 AM
I think she will blow :evil:, I like :evil:
Title: Re: silicone charge pipe/ coupler- half failure
Post by: patsmx5 on November 12, 2009, 12:50:21 AM
Quote from: Minor Threat on November 11, 2009, 10:19:56 PM
Putting the real in realhomemadeturbo
This. I wanna see if it holds up though.
Title: Re: silicone charge pipe/ coupler- half failure
Post by: Teg2boo on November 12, 2009, 11:47:06 AM
Wow, you can even do reusable condom!!

Do want.
Title: Re: silicone charge pipe/ coupler- half failure
Post by: Joseph Davis on November 13, 2009, 10:39:09 AM
Might not be worth the time spent to the hardcore fabricators, but it's an interesting lesson in composite materials.  Next thing you know, Arsenio will be making his own 4 ply nylon reinforced silicon hoses.  Everyone starts somewhere.

Quote from: Teg2boo on November 12, 2009, 11:47:06 AM
Wow, you can even do reusable condom!!

Do want.

You want his used condoms??
Title: Re: silicone charge pipe/ coupler- half failure
Post by: Robb on November 13, 2009, 10:59:54 AM
Have you pressure tested it yet?  Does it hold up?  This interests me for strange and sharp bends needed at compressor exits sometimes.

I take back what I said about your pink IC, this makes up for it.  :noel:
Title: Re: silicone charge pipe/ coupler- half failure
Post by: Teg2boo on November 13, 2009, 11:28:35 AM
Quote from: Joseph Davis on November 13, 2009, 10:39:09 AM
Might not be worth the time spent to the hardcore fabricators, but it's an interesting lesson in composite materials.  Next thing you know, Arsenio will be making his own 4 ply nylon reinforced silicon hoses.  Everyone starts somewhere.

Quote from: Teg2boo on November 12, 2009, 11:47:06 AM
Wow, you can even do reusable condom!!

Do want.

You want his used condoms??

It was an impersonal use of "you" ;)
Title: Re: silicone charge pipe/ coupler- half failure
Post by: Joseph Davis on February 02, 2010, 01:41:45 AM
And we banned this guy?  People here are fucking stupid.
Title: Re: silicone charge pipe/ coupler- half failure
Post by: Minor Threat on February 02, 2010, 01:44:34 AM
Quote from: Joseph Davis on February 02, 2010, 01:41:45 AM
And we banned this guy?  People here are fucking stupid.

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