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When you come to the end of a toilet roll
you are left with a stubby section of
virtually useless cardboard tubing.
One Tube Deserves Another requires a
slightly new manufacturing system, and
though it involves the consumption of
more cardboard, the result is a tube that
has the potential
for a useful outcome.
To understand the idea, think of two
tubes of the same length, but
one fits inside the other. Now imagine
the
inner tube is pushed out by a half inch
and
fused into position. This means that the
tube now has a "male" end and a "female"
end.
This enables the empty cardboard tubes
to
fit together and be used as a simple
construction material.
Illustration
http://web.mac.com/...rves%20another.html
The start of something big... my first effort with Illustrator CS [xenzag, Dec 17 2007]
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//virtually useless// Now *that's* a challenge! {starts compiling mental list of 101 uses for a dead toilet roll} |
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BUN! This would be good for recycling too! |
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Every 5th of these could have flexible pleats (like a flexible drinking straw) so you can build curvy piping.
Every 10th of them could have an interior hole so you can make branches. |
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Make them all with flexible pleats and at least two holes, to allow flexible construction. |
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edit - (I inserted the rest of the second
sentence)
[phundu] if all of the toilet
rolls were available as either "straights" or
"curves", then many forms could be
constructed. The degree of cuvature of the
rolls could be printed on the outside.
"6 pack of bog roll please" - "Certainly Sir
- straights or curves?" - "Eh, 3 shallow
arcs,
one acute, and two straights" |
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Excellent idea. Some tubes should be capped at the end, so you can finish off your constructions neatly. |
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If this is part of a range of bathroom products, then the lids of, pehaps, bottles of powder, or packaging for toilet cistern blocks could be designed to be neatly fitting "caps" for the tubes. |
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