- Today, I'm gonna turn these pile of stuff
into a dog and food bowl holder.
(techno music)
So let me explain exactly what I've got here.
I have a skateboard deck that I just ordered off of Amazon.
And then I have a whole bunch of these iron pipe pieces
from Home Depot that I just had to spend
a bunch of times sitting on the floor in the aisle
trying to find the ones that I needed
to fit the design that I had in mind.
And here's what I have in mind.
When everything is finished,
these two dog bowls,
should fit into the skateboard deck just like that.
All of these little parts will fit together
to make legs that raise the skateboard deck
off the ground.
I'm using these threaded pieces with rubber caps
to allow for the height to be adjusted.
Also, to not scratch the floor.
One of the first steps is gonna be to figure out
where to cut the holes in the skateboard deck
to hold the bowls.
Now, what I can't do
is just measure the diameter of the bowls
because if I cut a hole that's this diameter,
these will just go straight through it.
These bowls have a lip on them,
and that means that if I make the hole
just a little bit smaller than the diameter of the bowl,
the lip will hold it so that it stays in the deck
and doesn't just fall through.
The diameter of the bowl itself is five and a half inches,
so that means I need to cut
two, five and a half inch holes in the deck.
There are couple things I need to keep in mind here.
The surface of this deck,
it's going to go like this,
with the tails facing down,
so the bottom will actually become the top.
And on this surface,
the bowls will be going in the middle.
And then these, will basically be going
like that on the other side.
Since, these can't really be moved,
I'm going to position them first.
I'm going to try using Gorilla glue to attach
these to the deck.
If you're unfamiliar with Gorilla glue,
it expands a lot as it dries,
so you don't wanna use too much.
It also uses moisture to cure,
so I'm taking a damp cloth
and putting a little bit of moisture
on the board
and on this part.
(funky music)
Now that I've got both of these mounted with glue.
I need to clamp them down.
So I'm gonna clamp these down for at least one hour,
maybe two.
It's been an hour, so let's undo this.
This is on there, nice and tight.
Even though I only used a little bit of Gorilla glue,
you can still see where it's starting to come out
around the edges here.
It really expands once it dries.
To measure out the holes for the water bottle,
I found a little stove pot
that was five and a half inches in diameter.
I always have a really hard time in cutting circles,
so I'm gonna start cutting by using this,
which goes into a drill
and then works almost like a mini circular saw.
(power drill revving)
I'm missing a jigsaw to cut the holes,
so now I'm gonna work on putting the stands together.
To make sure that these don't move,
I'm gonna put Loctite Super glue
on all of the threads just a little bit.
(funky music)
So now, at this point, this almost looks like
a regular skateboard truck,
except instead of wheels,
we're gonna put little legs on here.
These legs, I'm not going to put Loctite
because I want them to be adjustable so that way,
I can level out the board
if I need to.
(funky music)
Now this first support is pretty much complete.
(techno music)
That's pretty much it.
It's all finished.
Ready for dogs to eat and drink out of.
Super simple, fun project,
you can customize it however you want
if you choose to do it.
The point of doing it,
I don't really know.
It's just pretty neat.
(techno music)