okay so let's cut this pipe right now I
think I'll try another blade okay here we go this is much better
welcome back to Steve Robb reviews today I'm going to show you a low cost I'll turn it up for making
a flagpole and I've designed this all myself it's all my own idea and it's very basic it's nothing
pretty I don't do pretty on my channel and I'm gonna show you over here the whole idea behind
it and this is probably about the lowest cost I would say flagpoles that you could make and
for me they're going to be for up up my camp up in Northern Ontario and my whole one side of the
garage is going to be covered with flags and I'm gonna show you here on the bench the whole idea
behind it and how this all goes together and how you can build this yourself well let's start off
with the materials here and I'll just pan back and forth and of course we have a 10-foot piece of PVC
conduit and then we've got the 3/4 inch piece of metal conduit thin wall conduit and you seen
that I cut four pieces off so these two pieces will go right here and these two pieces will go
right here and that's where you're going to attach your flag and it's very simple all I did was cut
them ten foot lengths right in half so they're five feet right now and let's get on to this
part right here and you could see how these have a little bit of playing them but that's fine but
we're going to fasten these down from here to here and leave a specific space in between right there
and I'm going to show you the reason behind that and let's get to it and let's fasten these down
in a particular orientation to match the flags okay what I'm using right here is a 9/64 but
you could use a 1/8 or whatever size rivet you're gonna put it in because we're using rivets and I
just got two of them here I'll just show you I'm just going to put it right in the center there
and we'll just punch in a couple of holes and this will make it easier so when you're going
into the conduit so let's attach it to the conduit next okay so I just got this raid on
the end here just holding it now this conduit is pretty thin so as you can see it's easy to punch
a hole through there and next we'll put a rivet in okay you ready just line it up here there we
go and that's all you need is just a one rivet so now I'm gonna do the next one here but first
of all I got to show you what the spacing is now whatever type of you know zip tie you have
or tie strap that you're using I'm using this one because it's fairly thick so you want to have one
that is not too tight when you put the next one in here so it'll swivel on this and that's what
I'm gonna do so you can see so I'm gonna have to measure this right like here and then I'll put the
rivet in here and I'll do it as we get down to the end now when you get further down depending on the
size of your flag you're gonna have to adjust these to fit your flag right I've noticed some
Flags are not Universal on their grommets from one location to the next depending on your flag
supplier but I'll bring you back when this is done and I'll show you how it fits well this is what we
got right here and it's very simple all you can see here I got two of these zip ties in here and
that's only because I wanted to make sure that I could use these if I had to two of them instead
of one of the other so we'll get down to here and I'll show you yeah I've got one of these
big heavy duty ones it just fits in there and you could see there is some slack in there right and
I wanted to make sure that there was some slack last thing you needs to have this all bind up
on you so that's pretty much it right there and the only thing we have to do now is the end how
are you going to mount this so depending on what you're mounting it to like for me I'm mounting
it on the side of my graduate and stud so I'll show you how I'm gonna do that well what we got
here is just a plain spruce 2x4 it's 11 inches long and I've marked it here at one and a half
inches before the end and on my miter saw here I got it set at 33 and a half now you can pick
your angle whatever angle you like but I'm gonna go with that one so let's cut it right off now
there we go well this is the setup right here I'm using a one-inch wood bit and you
just mark it off here at your 45-degree angle and most flags they recommend to have them at
a 45 degree angle so we're going to drill a 45-degree angle through this piece of wood
okay you get the idea I'm going to finish drilling it through there and then I'll show
you what we got going on next okay this is the setup here and all I've done was
screw this little piece onto here with screws from the back make sure you don't put a screw
in the center right okay so all I've did is just kind of eyeball it and line it up
okay you got the idea I'm gonna finish drill that hole all the way through and you'll see what it
looks like well this is it right here and you could see I used a longer bit but you could use
a shorter one two is fine and it fits right in there and if it's raised straight through there
and comes out the back now I'm going to tell you something unless you get that angle right
on you're gonna have to use one of these and what I did just a rasp and I had to just on the bottom
side here just get the correct angle and of course this will come through here and this
will be on the face of my garage so all I'm gonna do now is put in a couple of screw holes one here
one here and then I'll show you it looks like when it's finished well there you go that's it
right there and that's the one of the flags that I have I already have three flags and you could see
here how it's going to be positioned of course it won't stick out the end there because it'll
be the wall of my garage there and there's the two fasteners that I'm going to use the
big long screws now I am gonna treat this so it doesn't all rust and that kind of stuff but that's
pretty well lit right there and I just stuck in a couple of small ties for now because I'm
not gonna take it up north like this I'm gonna just cut these ties off after but uh there she
is right there well what do you think I can make each one of these flag poles for under ten bucks
it's galvanized it's going to last a long time and of course the pieces on the end now if you
take a look at the piece on the end here well you can fabricate one of them up in like ten
minutes you know if it were to break or anything like that very easy to install and the good part
about this particular flag build is if you're going on a brick wall or anything else well you
can fabricate your own end to suit your needs and that's the best part but I mean this idea
of using the the PCV conduit guys this is the way to go it's weatherproof I do have a flag up
at the can the Canadian flag this is going next to it and I have to mother to other ones as well
you're going to see them in the summertime but just the one rivet is all you really need and
this will just swivel on this nice now the one that I have up there is a store-bought one and
you know what it binds it well it's cheesy and I thought you know what if you want something you
know to last and to be at least half-decent i mean it doesn't look like a million bucks
but you know a lot neither do i so here you go this is it right here I hope you like it and
if you've never seen this channel before well you're gonna see a lot more stuff like this in
the future so you just guys take care of thanks for watching and come back again knowing Cheers
you