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Another Heat-Gun/Plastic-Bottle Joinery Example: Tonghe Wang's Bottle Stool

By Rain Noe - November 5, 2021

in DIY | Furniture Design | Sustainability

Someone named Tonghe Wang (no further information was provided) came up with this, writing only: "This is a bottle stool."

While I doubt the connections would be strong enough to hold a person, I admire the creativity. This reminds me of Guillermo Cameron Mac Lean's method of making cabinet knobs.

I like the idea of people repurposing throwaway packaging by exploiting its properties to create joinery. During the Industrial Revolution, when we first mastered the ability to make repeatable and consistent threads, it would've blown their minds to think we'd go to the trouble of creating threaded items only meant to be used once.

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Zach W

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How about we stop looking at plastic water bottles as something you only use once? Who started that trend? You can use it again as a water bottle over and over for a year or more or a million other re-useable uses....
Also gluing plastic caps into a wood base makes both items almost impossible to dispose of when the time comes....

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  I agree, but be aware that most common single use plastic bottles are not made of a material suitable for re-use due to the chemicals used in the plastic being transferred to the water over time, which is harmful to humans. We could just stop selling and transporting tap water under all the different brand names, and make more public available taps and only use safer BPE free plastic, metal or glass bottles to fetch our drinking water. For you Americans, you might consider voting for politicians who will address your drinking water situation and not leave cities like Flint, MI, withut clean drinking water.
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Anthony Towers

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how about we don't take the piss out of peoples names

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