Happy wind-chime

On the 1st December it was nearly Christmas and my teacher “Mark” from Canada told us that we can make a gift for some-one because all our welding booths were taken from the day. I decided to make a large wind chime made out of disposed copper pipes and scrap metal from the workshop bins. This came into my mind when I saw the workshop scrap bin full of materials which can be used like the copper piped. So I thought about making something which will be simple using scrap metal which will be thrown away.

I got 4 large copper pipes with a diameter of 2cm and 3 small copper pipes with a diameter of 1 cm. I cut all the copper pipes into its right length to give its nice effects then drilled holes 1cm from the top. Once I finished this, I got a long piece of steel (15x1x0.5cm) and rolled it making sure that both end meats then mig weld it to make sure that it will stay together. This is the main part where the pipes will be held in place with strings, I drilled 4 holes with 1inch part for the large pipes and then 3 more hole with 1/2inch part for the smaller pipes so that it is able to hit each other and make its sound. Afterwards I got a short piece of steel (10x3x0.5cm) and made the inside disk with holes 1cm apart so that I an able to thread string thought it. Lastly I made the wind chime it self using mig welding and using a plasma cutter.

Finally I cut out a circle with a diameter of 7cm with a mouth with the plasma cutter and took 4 of the large nuts the college had and mig weld it onto both of its faces. Once I had finish threading it together (took me about 2hrs and I used yarn), this is my end product.