There are many fun little ways to turn discarded cans into treasures. Friends who like handmade cans can see [here]. Today I want to share with you how to DIY a mini propeller plane using cans. For the specific production method, please refer to the detailed illustrated tutorial below. On this basis, you can further consider adding a small electric propeller to the aircraft to make the aircraft glide forward. The editor has tried it successfully and will share it with you when I have the opportunity.
Materials and Tools:
Waste cans, iron wire, cotton thread, plastic bottles (glass glue bottles are used here), film, hot melt adhesive, double-sided tape, transparent tape, scissors, pliers, screws and nuts, etc.
Steps to make a propeller plane from cans:
(1) Making the machine head
1. Use scissors or a knife to cut open the can and cut off the entire top;
2. Wrap the can body with the prepared twilled waste paper;
3. Use the twill on the waste paper as a guideline to cut the bottle into a dozen equal sections from the opening;
4. Press the thin strip cut out of the can body to be parallel to the top of the can, make the thin strip divergent, and bend the end of the thin strip into an arc;
5. Use a tool to drill a small circular hole in the center of the bottom of the can;
6. Cut a round piece from the cardboard just enough to fit on the bottom of the bottle, and punch a hole in the middle;
7. Fix the cardboard disc to the bottom of the can with glue or double-sided tape, and align the empty hole with the small hole in the can.
(2) Making wings
1. Use scrap iron wire to bend into the shape in the upper left corner of the picture below. The joint can be reinforced with hot melt glue or soldering iron. This wire frame is the frame of the aircraft wing;
2. Wrap the entire wing body with the plastic film cut from the beverage can. In order to make the wing look more attractive, you can add a layer of hard cardboard or can film between the wing and the plastic film. film;
3. Use universal glue to stick the plastic film, clips and wire frame, paying attention to the front and back of the film;
4. Follow this method to make the upper and lower wings of the aircraft model.
(3) Making the body
1. Clean the empty glass and plastic bottles;
2. In the upper right corner of the picture, use scrap hardware to drive screws and studs into the mouth of the glass glue bottle;
3. Use the plastic film of the beverage bottle to wrap the body of the glass glue bottle, and use double-sided tape in between;
4. Remove the excess plastic film and trim it slightly.
(4) Making the cabin
1. Use waste cardboard or cut the empty shell of a soft drink to make a rectangular and slightly curved square as shown in the picture;
2. Use transparent glue to glue the openings of each part of the cardboard.
(5) Making wheels
1. Every two cans are in a group, and the interfaces are aligned;
2. Use electrical tape to wrap a set of two cans along the edges;
3. A total of three such aircraft wheels are needed.
All parts of the aircraft have been processed, and the next step is to assemble the aircraft model.
(6) Combined aircraft rear wheel
1. Use iron wire to penetrate the fuselage and wheels as shown in the figure, and bend it at right angles;
2. Cut a long strip from another can and bend it into a right-angled U shape as a support frame for the rear wheel; the specific sequence is not important.
(7) Combination aircraft front wheel
1. Use wire to bend the bracket, and fix this and the bracket to the top of the lower wing with hot melt glue;
2. The axle of the support frame is also supported by can slices;
3. Install the two wheels onto the axle of the lower wing. Note that there are two stop protrusions on the axle, which are sintered with solder;
4. After the two wheels are on the axles, sinter and seal both ends of the axles with solder.
(8) Combined cans aircraft body
1. Pass the machine head with the propeller through the small hole through the protruding screw on the fuselage. After threading it, use the solder burner on the top of the screw to hold the machine head;
2. Fix the lower wing to the fuselage;
3. Add the cabin to the fuselage and stick it to the inner wall with transparent glue;
4. Use two pieces of cardboard folded into a V shape to cut into the shape of the tail fin, wrap it with plastic film and align one section as shown in the figure, and fix the other end to the tail of the fuselage with double-sided tape.
(9) Fixing of wings on aircraft
1. Take the iron wire cut into small sections and penetrate it through the upper and lower wings respectively; the middle part of the iron wire is wrapped with cotton rope, and the two sides of the wing are stopped with screws. The screws can be fixed with hot melt glue to prevent fall off;
2. Add a few more vertical fixed wire pillars around the wing to support the upper and lower wings; cross-tie the iron wire pillars with cotton threads. The cotton threads are equivalent to acting as steel on the aircraft wings. Cable;
After wiping away my sweat, I finally finished making this small propeller airplane made from discarded cans.
Heres a close-up photo. Isn't this small plane made of cans quite decent?
