What do you do with the non-working plastic lighters? Throwing? We offer you an interesting way how to extend the life of two plastic Chinese lighter. From this article you will learn how to make motorcycles from lighters.
Master class: motorcycle of 2 lighters with their own hands
It will take:
- two identical gas plastic lighters;
- adhesive for plastic, double-sided adhesive tape;
- tweezers, nippers, pliers.
A step-by-step instruction on how to assemble a motorcycle from a cigarette lighter:
- We release gas from lighters and disassemble them into their component parts.
- We leave only the details that we need: they are shown in the photo. For ease of explanation of the connection, all parts are numbered.
- To make the wheels, insert the parts 2 of the parts 8, 7 and 5 into the grooves, as shown in the photo. Wheels must always spin.
- Do this twice to get two blanks for the motorcycle body.
- The seat of the motorcycle is made by inserting the part 2 into the workpiece No. 1, as shown in the photo.
- Two metal rods (part 4) are wrapped with a double-sided adhesive tape, and then we put them on the part 6. We get one or two exhaust pipes.
- With the help of glue we fix them on the workpiece No. 1 above the wheel.
- To make the steering wheel, on the blank number 2 do, using a hot sharp object (sewing) in the stick hole. To get the handlebar handle, insert the connected metal parts of the part into the resulting hole 9. Cut the excess of its plastic part or gently fuse it.
- To make the front part of our motorcycle, to the blank number 2 (in front under the handles) fix the part 1, fix it with the help of light compression. A little lower, in the same way, you should fix the second same part.
- To connect the blanks No. 1 and No. 2, use the end of the seat part (that is in the first workpiece), as shown in the photo.
- But in some types of lighters this can not be done because of the shape of their parts, so you can simply glue both blanks.
- If desired, you can equip the motorcycle with additional stylish accessories: mirrors, license plate, leather seat, etc.
Our motorcycle of 2 lighters is ready.
The size of this motorcycle is about 4 cm in length and 2 in height.
Before you make a motorcycle of unnecessary lighters, for a gift, it is better to practice first, so that the motorcycle made by your hands goes out neat and sturdy.
Interesting crafts can be made from other unnecessary things, such as old video tapes .