Making a periscope of empty toilet paper tubes
This is my new toilet post, those who follow me can see post like this from time to time.
There are numerous ways to use empty toilet paper tubes. If you have a rabbit as a pet, he would be glad to get these tubes to play with them. When I had a rabbit, these were his favorite toys. Many people forget to throw empty tubes after they use all paper on them, so you can surely find few of them in your bathroom. They are interesting and you can make a lot of different and useful things of them.
When I was 8 or 9 years old, I made a periscope of empty toilet paper tubes, a mirror and some duct tape.
Now, after many years, I decided to try to make it again to show you how to do it. Maybe some of you, Steemers, gets a new idea and these empty tubes of toilet paper can be your inspiration, too.
First, let's talk about things that you'll need for making your own periscope.
- The only tools you need are scissors.
- Then, you need a little mirror, you can steal it from your wife's/mom's/sister's/grandma's makeup set. Be careful not to brake it, I don't want to be responsible for your 7 years of misfortune. Make sure that your mirror can fit in the tube.
- Duct tape, Scotch tape or any kind of sticky tape.
- Few empty toilet paper tubes.
First you need to cut two empty tubes at an angle of nearly 45°. See photo below:
Fix the mirror on the one of the tubes with the tape. Be sure that you fix the mirror at angle of 45° but in opposite direction of your cut. See the photo:
The final stage is connecting two of these tubes. Check the photo:
In my case, these tubes are different sized. You can extend your periscope by adding more tubes at the ends of these.
This is not a professional tool but it can be useful if you live next door to a sexy girl and only a wall stands between your windows.
Or you can use it as a tool if you have problems with your neck spine, as me, and you have difficulties with your neck rotation. Or you can make it just for fun, to wake up imagination of your kids!
I hope you are not up to no good with that :-)
why do I have a feeling that I just gave you an idea? ;)
i leave that to the men then ;)
...just wanna make sure you don't "live stream" on this Periscope, as it is not good for the eyes.
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