PVC pipe is a valuable material to the backyard hacker. It’s cheap, readily available, and comes in a range of different sizes. However, what do you do if you need to bend it? The typical ...

Lowe's sells 10-foot lengths of schedule 40 PVC Charlotte pipe for just over $5. Get some pipe caps in the right size, too.

One of his more interesting builds is his series on building rocket engines out of PVC pipe written in conjunction with [Chuck Knight]. For the propellent grains, the PVC rocket didn’t use the ...