I have been looking for a cheap but durable clothes rack for Michael's dance concert. He will have 6 or 7 different costumes, so I figured it was time we brought our own rack to hang them on. The only cheap ones I've come across have had terrible reviews for falling apart, so I decided to try to build one. Ideally I would like one that rolls, but the boys' dressing room is down a flight of stairs, so I would end up needing to carry it and all the costumes down there anyway.
I used 3/4 inch PVC pipe. To get the length, I measured across the back of our car so that I could use the top bar as a hanging rack while driving. It was about 46", so I cut 2 pieces this length (the top and the bottom). Then I wanted the height at 36", so I cut the 2 side pieces this length. For the fittings I used elbows and tees. I used the elbows to attach the top pole to the sides and tees to attach the bottom pole. Finally to stabilize it, I attached another tee to each bottom corner using short 2" pipes and put a 5" pipe into each side of these tees.
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| elbow (left) and tee (right) fittings |
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| top corner |
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| bottom corner |
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| top bar hanging in the car |
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| hole with string to hang in the car |
To make it usable as a rack that would hang in the car I drilled a hole through each end of the top pole and tied a string through it. My plan is to carry the costumes in on that top pole and put the rack together once we get down to the dressing room. I spent less than $10 on the PVC pipe and fittings, and it took me less than 30 minutes to complete.
You really made a cute rack out of those pipes. Good job Amy! Pipe Joint System
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