Line from plastic bottles. Fishing tackle from plastic bottles Types of homemade traps for catching fish

What distinguishes a survivalist from an ordinary person is not camouflage, supplies and a warehouse of knives in his pockets. The differences are primarily at the level of thinking. A common person looks at the thing and uses it according to generally accepted stereotypes. And the prepper looks and thinks How can it be useful to me?". And this applies to everything - even ordinary plastic bottles.

The methods of their application are very diverse: both water purification and construction material, and much more. But our friend Fedor Stepanov(he has repeatedly shared with us his cunning know-how, for example, making from an army bowler hat) discovered another effective application- from PET bottles you can make extra strong line-rope. And he not only came up with how, but also shot a video about it. What follows is the text and words of the author.

This video is about making fishing line from a plastic bottle. Not ribbons, but ropes. PET tape is good for everyone, but it has a number of restrictions on its use.

To make such a rope, we need a bottle cutter, a screwdriver and building hair dryer. The bottle cutter deserves special attention, thanks to its inventor, lawyer Egorov ( this comrade also did - we also have such an article. Note. editor), a link to the video on its manufacture in the description.

First, we cut the tape from an ordinary plastic bottle. The thickness of the line to be made depends on the width of the cut tape, the thicker the line, the wider the tape you use. Then one end of the cut tape must be fixed, for example, in a vice, and the other end must be clamped in the screwdriver chuck. We stretch the tape and begin to twist it into a rope. The tape must always be kept taut. If you let go, the tape will unravel. Now let's take a building hair dryer and heat the tape along its entire length. Due to the tension force, the heated area folds into a neat spiral, and when it cools down, it will no longer unravel. One piece of advice - don't overheat. Polyethylene fluorophtholate easily vulcanizes and loses all of its beneficial features. Please note: in order for the weaving of the rope to be uniform, during the manufacturing process, the tape must be periodically twisted. Everything, fishing line but ready.

If there is an urgent need, then you can do without a hair dryer and a screwdriver. Using, for example, any stick as a crank, and a lighter or a torch to heat the PET tape. But, it is better to use a more technological tool. Empirical observations have shown that the rope can be made from several layers of PET tape, such a rope is more elastic and stronger, but much thicker.

Now a few words about the application of such fishing line. As you guessed from the name, this line is perfect for trimmer lawn mowers and mulchers. The cost of industrial woods is high, but here you get it almost free of charge and in unlimited quantities. Besides desired type There may not be a size in the store, but with my method you can make any. The fishing line is much stronger than PET tape of the same width and withstands much more load. And thanks to the cylindrical geometry and rigidity, it easily fits into eyelets, grooves and sleeves. I am sure there are many applications for such a rope. From being used as underwear to making bowstrings and guitar strings. Share your ideas on the use of fishing line-rope in the comments.

As an economic person, I was hooked by the topic of getting a rope from plastic bottles. It’s a cool thing to get a fairly strong rope (more precisely, PET tape) from an unnecessary plastic bottle, which is free and is only used on the farm, and many make all sorts of crafts and not only decorative ones out of it. PET tape also has heat shrink properties, which allows you to make strong connections and minor repairs, for example, he fixed his wife's mop and his chair. Sometimes it replaces the irreplaceable blue electrical tape 🙂
Summer is coming, and you may need such a free rope for domestic purposes. Moreover, the shrink tape (rope) is very easy and simple to get from an unnecessary plastic bottle.

I'll start by using the resulting PET tape from the bottle. Wangyu, that in the first comments they will insert a video of Lawyer Egorov, whoever has not seen it, I recommend watching it, and this was the beginning of my acquaintance with PET tape. I will describe where I personally used it, and who else when used PET tape, add in the comments, it's interesting.

In the apartment:
Repaired the mop - metal pipe cracked and parted in the type of joint, I had to wrap it with a strip from the bottle and wrap it with PET tape and seat it on gas stove turned out neat and solid.
He repaired his chair - wrapped it well where it cracked and seated it with a lighter. Saving blue electrical tape! 🙂
Classic - handles on pliers, wrapped and seated.
Instead of adhesive tape, he packed the wires in bundles, tied cardboard boxes around. Sometimes the tape ends at the wrong time.
A pipe was leaking - a tap under the thread cracked, took a rubber glove, cut it into a tape, wrapped it tightly, then wrapped it with PET tape, waited for the plumber and he had already turned off the water in the house and changed the tap.

Homestead:
There is not a plowed field, parallel to the garden twine, something to tie, tie, hang, pull, even used instead of nails when it ran out - I made a temporary greenhouse. We cleaned a young garden, in a couple of minutes I made stools to rest, dragged branches and logs with an impromptu thick rope made of PET tape, in any case easier than with my hands.

I like to go to the forest for picnics and just spontaneous walks with a company:
The bottles themselves were brought with water and or other liquids, they were emptied and used. Hang a washstand from the same bottle from which you got the tape, tie stools or even benches and chairs, pull an improvised awning from a raincoat or plastic film, collect and carry branches and logs easier with a rope. While fishing, I set up an impromptu sun tent from a bedspread - I forgot my umbrella 🙂 . Garbage naturally clean up after themselves.

In short, I don’t fanatically run with PET tape for overweight, but I use it where there are unnecessary plastic bottles and no ropes, or it’s not rational and pitiful to spend a normal rope, and PET tape will solve these problems. I don't do mountain climbing with this kind of rope. A junk household rope that you don’t feel sorry for, that’s also heat shrink and plastic reuse.

It is easier and faster to get a rope out of a plastic bottle using a fixture or tool such as a bottle cutter. I will dwell on it in more detail.

I got infected with the idea after the video of Advocate Yegorov. But he didn’t make his bottle cutter, like other options from corners, washers, meat grinders, bars and pipes, etc. I don’t have a workshop and a garage, I don’t have such materials and tools, the meat grinder is electric, I’m too lazy to make them and I don’t need a machine for cutting bottles. Therefore, I decided not to repeat it, but to make it even simpler, the most important of available materials and more compact (manual) in order to cut bottles into ribbons at the place of application of the rope. I made many variants of bottle cutters, ranging from mini and micro to an ax bottle cutter. In order not to tire, I will demonstrate the simplest ones, to choose from ...

The very first was a bottle cutter from a pencil sharpener. It is done very simply - unscrew the blade, turn the blade over, insert it into the sharpener a little at an angle, screw it on without fanaticism and you're done. Well, 20 seconds max. It is advisable to use aluminum pencil sharpeners, although I have already seen pictures on the net with plastic sharpeners, the blade was soldered into the case with a soldering iron.
I immediately noticed that a sharpener in hiking is not a bad tool - you can easily get tighter chips from a dry stick and use it as kindling for a fire or even tinder. Therefore, this option began to be positioned for me as a marching, light and compact. And the modernization of this bottle cutter started, sharpening for hiking - cuts on a screw to unscrew with a coin and use the blade to prepare the bottle (the knife is no longer needed), for convenience, I added a mini knife to the sharpener body and additional cuts to get ribbons different widths. It's cool, but moving towards complication, although it turned out to be multifunctional and most often I use it and am satisfied.

Two sections of a clerical or construction knife. The bottle itself is prepared with this blade, a bottle cutter is made from a bottle cap, and this blade almost replaces a clerical knife if necessary (to open a parcel, etc.), and is compact in itself. I made a simple envelope out of a bottle and threw it in my purse as a NAZ, now a small household blade is always with me.

It is better to use this option, a little more complicated but also more convenient to use.

And for dessert - bottle cutter scissors. Just scissors and the bottle itself, that's all. We prepare the bottle with scissors, remove the ring from the neck, the guide is placed from the ring and then we cut the tape, you just have to see it. Scissors preferably sharp and without play. If there is a backlash and bites the bottle, then you need to pull the tape on top of the scissors.
Tested on small scissors ( Swiss knife), not very convenient and flimsy, but it works. The test on the secateurs (the lower half with notches) failed, but there are secateurs and like scissors. I also changed the width of the resulting tape, the fishing line and did not try to cut it, but the width was 2mm, the preparation of the bottle is important. The principle itself is very working and can be developed - instead of a ring from the neck, use other materials.
Cool way.

When designing these bottle cutters, I was guided by the following principles: the use of available materials, simplicity, ease of manufacture, repeatability, and cutting at an angle.

The bottle cutters provided in this post are manual (they are not machines), respectively, when used, they require some experience, skill and safety measures. You can cut yourself on paper, not to mention the tape, and it is very painful and unpleasant and not necessary. Try to work with gloves, carefully, safely, etc. The quality of the cut is greatly affected by the preparation of the bottle, for wide tapes you need a smooth start, although the bottle cutters will still align the tape but you will get a piece with waves. It is recommended to pull the tape trying to press it a little against the blade, so the bottle is pressed against the stop more strongly and is directed to the grip by the blade, it turns out more accurately.

I don’t have such obvious preferences for choosing bottle cutters, I use what is at hand at the moment and with less fuss - usually an improved sharpener, scissors, blade or knife and lid, if I find a meat grinder, then it will do. Demonstrated for review the most simple, repeatable and compact. I think you will find a sharpener, a clerical knife, scissors, gloves, a bottle and quickly get a ribbon from a bottle, and you do not have to go to hardware stores for a rope. There are many other different bottle cutters on the net, from simple ones to machine tools.

Total
An unnecessary plastic bottle can still serve as a PET tape (rope) and heat shrink.
Naturally, you should not treat this with fanaticism, but it’s also useful just to know that this is possible and PET tape from a plastic bottle is very easy to get, it can help out.

A simple PET bottle mousetrap is shown, but, unfortunately, some of the rodents can escape from it. To improve reliability, several improvements are proposed.

1. Installing the cover on the mousetrap

The mousetrap is made from two identical bottles with a capacity of 1.5-2 liters. In the first bottle, only part of the conical part is cut off, and in the second, the conical part is cut off completely. The conical part of the second bottle will be the cap of the trap.

We make two symmetrical holes on the edges of the conical part of the first bottle for attaching a fishing line and hanging a bottle overturned by a rodent on this fishing line. We attach a lid to the top of the first bottle and mark the centers of two holes with a diameter of 5-7 mm, coinciding with the centers of the holes for the exit of the suspension lines. We make holes in the lid. With my own hands, I pass the fishing line through the holes in the lid and tie it to the first bottle.

Organization of pulling the lid off the table

Mousetrap refinement

If you install the mousetrap in this form, then when capsized, the cap will not close the bottle in any way and most likely will remain on the table. A special pusher is needed to move the cap behind the bottle. The pusher is made of wire in the form of a cropped letter “P”, the width of the upper shelf should be equal to the distance between the holes for attaching the fishing line. We firmly attach the pusher at a distance of ~ 20 cm from the bottle to the fastening lines. When the bottle falls down, the cap placed between the pusher and the bottle will be thrown off the table by the pusher. The pusher at the same time will optimally straighten the fishing lines for the correct lowering of the cap on the bottle.

The operation of the mousetrap is shown in the video.

You can simplify the homemade product by abandoning the pusher, but for this you will have to organize the suspension of the bottle outside the plane of the table.

2. Lengthening the bottle

We take a plastic PET bottle and cut off a section of the conical part, immediately make a hole in the bottom for the mouse to enter. From the first revision, there was a bottle without a neck. We combine the bottles together, we try to achieve a tight connection and, for the reliability of fastening, we wrap the joint with adhesive tape. The result was a bottle of increased length, and even with an additional obstacle from the conical part. We tie the bottle, put the bait at the bottom and set it for fishing.

Tests of such a homemade mousetrap are shown in the video.

Surely a good design will come from two bottles with cut bottoms and one neck. The bottles are combined and also connected with adhesive tape, the presence of a bottom from the conical part during capsizing will further complicate the accurate jump of the rodent to freedom.

An elongated bottle allows you to move the battlefield from buildings to the surrounding area. The combined bottles under the hole for the entrance of the rodent are vertically buried in the ground (carefully so that the structure does not collapse under the weight of the earth). I put the bait inside. We regularly check the results, if necessary, reinstall such mousetraps.

The topic of designing mousetraps is very interesting and will be continued.

In the future, a simple, reliable and very sensitive office floor mousetrap and an automatic reusable mousetrap made of PET bottles will be published.

More material on the topic of mousetraps.

In this video, lawyer Egorov will demonstrate the capabilities of the fishing line, which is made from a plastic bottle, trout became his catch. Pet tape is quite strong and big fish it won't break it. The author of the review video refers to this fishing as a curious experiment and has no doubt that it is better to use a purchased fishing line.

Caught fish, if possible, should be eaten on the spot - right on the fishing trip. In nature, by the fire, everything looks more appetizing, and you will agree that the parsley is tastier the faster you cook it. The plastic bottle ribbon that was used was taken in such a bright color for clarity. It is probably better to use a transparent bottle, but as practice has shown, the bright colors of the tape hardly scare the fish away. In any case, this is just an experiment and of course it is better to use a purchased fishing line.

So, using his manual Yegorov cut the bottle into strips of three meters. He tied a hook to one end of the ribbon. Polyethylene terephthalate is not fluorocarbon and recommends a regular bayonet assembly. On such a tape you can tie a hook and half as much, but in the stream he always uses a large hook so that small trout cannot swallow it. After installation, the sinker is ready.

Hello dear friends! Today I will tell you how to make a bottle cutter for cutting ribbons from plastic bottles. For this DIY, you will need a piece of chipboard in which holes are drilled and two M6 bolts are inserted.

We put three washers on each bolt.

Blade from a construction knife, the most important part of the bottle cutter.

Put on the washers and tighten the nuts. If you want to increase or decrease the width of the cut tape, simply place the required number of shims under the blade.

Attach the bottle cutter to the table top with a clamp.

From the bottle, pre-cut the bottom and make the beginning of the tape. Insert the bottle into the bottle cutter.

With your left hand, press the bottle down, and with your right hand, pull the tape without jerking.

From one bottle, it is possible to cut up to ten meters of very durable and useful in the household plastic tape. The length depends on the size of the bottle and the width of the cut tape.

Friends, I advise you to make this very simple and necessary household device for cutting plastic tape.
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