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Sprinkler
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| Materials | |||||||||
| 1 24oz plastic bottle with cap | |||||||||
| 1 Plastic coat hanger with or without hook | |||||||||
| 2 Large rubber bands | |||||||||
| 1 Hose end replacement kit 5/8" | |||||||||
| Electric drill & bits | |||||||||
| 1 Rubber washer for swivel hose end | |||||||||
| epoxy | |||||||||
| Calipers or measuring tape | |||||||||
| Utility Knife |
1. The most difficult part of this project is adapting the water hose to the soda bottle. I made 2 different adapters, one way was to cut the swivel end of an old water hose off keeping about 4" of hose and attaching another swivel end to the short hose (see photo below). The other way is to drill a 3/4" hole in the soda bottle cap and inserting the stem of a hose end replacement kit into the hole in the bottle cap and applying epoxy around cap and stem to secure it.
2. Attach the soda bottle to the plastic hanger with rubber bands as in photo (tie bands to hanger with a half hitch).
3. Drill 1/16" holes in the top & sides of the soda bottle, use a pattern that will give you the most spray coverage.You don't really need them directly on what will be top. Using a clock as an example, start your rows at about 1 and 11 oclock.
4. Attach the adapter to the bottle. With the hose type adapter you will need to add 1 extra rubber washer inside the swivel before screwing it onto the bottle because the threads are different and only screw on part way. The best adapter is the second one where the cap fits nicely onto the bottle.
5. Attach the water hose and you have a recycled bottle sprinkler.Two adapters and hose end replacemant kit.
