Good day everyone! Welcome back to TMac FPV-- your home for FPV fun, flights, and
racing stuff. I'm Tom. Last week we learned how to build our do-it-yourself
FPV racing gate. If you missed that no worries we've got you covered.
There should be a link that pops up here in the corner which you can click on and
review for yourself. This week, however, we're going to build our do-it-yourself
FPV racing flag for a total cost of about $10. That's less than twenty
percent-less than twenty percent-of the retail cost of a similar item. This FPV
racing flag along with the do-it-yourself gate from last week forms
the beginning of your backyard FPV race track. Let's get started. These are all
the tools that we're going to need for this particular build. These include a
hacksaw, Sharpie pen, case cutter or razor blade knife, white duct tape, tape measure,
scissors, stainless-steel adjustable clamp, 5 ft PVC-- a
shower curtain which is very similar, actually it's exactly the same as we did
last week for the DIY FPV racing gate. We're only going to use half of this
shower curtain so I'm going to be cutting it length-wise down the
middle and then fold half of it over for the flag material. Now you can also use a
nylon rip stop material for the flag itself however what I did-- what I've
been able to find out is that stuff is fairly expensive as opposed to this four
dollar shower curtain which I got at the local five-and-dime. We're going to
be using half inch PVC pipe. I purchased it in 5 foot lengths--5 foot
lengths of half inch PVC pipe. We're going to cut one of them into four equal
parts of 15 inches a piece which I've already done here.
We also have a half inch PEX pipe which is 10 feet in length and we're only
going to need 3 feet of that so I'm going to cut that for our 3-foot length.
Now this build is going to be very quick so don't blink or you'll end up missing
it and I promise you if you stick around at the end of the video we'lll be flying
circles around this flag when it's done. This particular build of the FPV racing
flag is going to give us a flag of about 6 feet in length. Now the flag itself
will be on a pole and it will be raised up above the ground using this flag
stand which we're going to build--a flagpole and stand--
it'll be raised up above the ground by another foot and a half so the overall
height of this flag and flagpole together from the ground to the top of
the flag is going to be about seven and a half feet. If you wanted to make a much
larger flag approximately twice in height then what you can do is get
another shower curtain liner and just put them end to end as I've done here
for demonstration purposes only. Here's the first shower curtain--here's a second
shower curtain. Put them end-to-end, cut the first shower curtain in half, put two
halves end-to- end and then you can go ahead and tape it along the seam here with a
white duct tape. With that that would be your material for a 15-foot flag. In
addition to that, you would need a longer pole and all you need to do for that is
get another five foot section of PVC half inch PVC pipe or the applicable
length of a half inch PVC pipe and connect your links together with this
half inch PVC coupler. All of the parts depicted here are going to be listed in
the comments below--the description below--along with their associated costs. We're
going to go ahead and start the build with the flag pole and the next step is
to go ahead and cut this 10-foot section of half-inch PEX pipe. So some of the
material you actually purchase is going to contribute to making two flags. And
we're done. We can go ahead and put together our flag stand right now. Put the four 15
inch sections of the half-inch PVC pipe that we cut into the five way Tee. This is
going to form our stand--and one more.
Then we're going to put--this half-inch PEX actually fits inside of the
half-inch PVC. So all I'm doing here is I'm using a razor blade knife and I'm
shaving off the end so that it will fit
inside the inside diameter of the PVC pipe. It fits like a glove, or a pipe.
So now, we have a flag stand we'll go ahead and start with the material. Now
we're going to measure the width of this shower curtain liner-it's about 70
inches. So about 35 inches is what we're going to do which is right here. So we're
gonna start cutting right there down here and cut the thing in half. We're
going to see approximately how much of a loop we need to have to slide it over
the pole. What I did is I just put a spare piece of pole in here about like
that. Now that is about two and a quarter inches. There's two things we can do with
this. We can either sew it--instead for those people that are like me that don't
want to sew--that's why we have duct tape. Duct tape is a cure-all for everything.
Okay now we want to cut this piece of material-the shower curtain liner-into
the shape of our feather flag. Now it's important on this piece to keep this
opening open so we just want to put a piece of tape from there there.
And here's our completed FPV race flag-- Looking good and ready for action! So,
that folks, is how we build our do-it-yourself FPV race flag. Join us
next week when we put both these FPV race flags and the gates from last week
into good use. If you liked the video give it a thumbs up, share it with your
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