I saw a post the other day on DVGuru.com about a DIY fig rig, I was amazed, and had to try. The results were great, and I am so happy with them. Images can be found here.
I thought that I would add my parts list, and some of the things that made it easy for me on this nice little DIY.
1x Five foot piece of 3/4 PVC pipe
10x 3/4 PVC chevron angle pieces umm… You know what I am talking about.
2x 3/4 PVC T’s
1x 3/4 PVC X
2x 3/4 PVC Plugs with a 1/4 inch whole drilled in it
1x 4-1/4 – 20 Carriage bolt
2x 1/4 inch fender washers
2x 1/4 inch wing-nuts
That is about it. The next step is trimming all of the PVC pipe to the correct lengths. With the five foot section of pipe, cut to these lengths.
5x 6 inches
2x 3 inches
4x 2 1/2 inches
2x 1 1/2 inches
That is all the cutting. About the easiest way that to put it all together is by doing it in two halves. That way you can press them together. After you get them put together, you screw the wing-nut to the bottom, and then add the washer. But the bolt all the way through, and unless you are adding the camera right away, put the other wing-nut on the top.
This was a really simple, cool project. I was anxious to get this started, as I wanted to take it skiing at Brighton the next day. You can check out the video here.
Special thanks to Shygantic for the specs.
I think that this is useful solely to those who know and need to know what a fig rig is.
Thanks Jon… Always the pundit.
No, I just feel like I need to put others down to make me feel smarter because I don’t know what one is, even after reading your post. Some kind of camera apparatus?