"Ideas for making a holder for a 28mm hot air balloon" Topic
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TXDave  | 21 Oct 2014 8:28 a.m. PST |
Looking for some creative ideas on building a holder for a z28mm hot air balloon that will allow the balloon to rise or drop without having a huge contraption that detracts from the visuals. My original idea was to put a dowel into a base and then use another dowel to raise or lower the balloon height, but getting stumped on an easy way to attach that dowel to the main dowel. Any ideas are greatly appreciated? Thanks, Dave |
 Jeff Ewing | 21 Oct 2014 8:43 a.m. PST |
If it were me, I might go for some acrylic rod or tubing; for example: link and then get some sort of adjustable clamp, which I'd try and build into the balloon if at all possible. Something like: link |
| TNE2300 | 21 Oct 2014 8:50 a.m. PST |
use several acrylic rods of various lengths a hole in the base
a hole in the bottom of the balloon
no glue swap the rod to alter the height |
| Col Durnford | 21 Oct 2014 8:55 a.m. PST |
String from the ceiling attached to the top of the balloon? |
| TNE2300 | 21 Oct 2014 8:58 a.m. PST |
craft the balloon out of an actual balloon
fill with helium adjust anchor lines to adjust height |
| Random Die Roll | 21 Oct 2014 9:42 a.m. PST |
Ideas are often part of a budget….
How about a junk auto parts place---car antenna with motor assembly.
You can go without the motor and get a "flight stand"
which is pretty much a small radio antenna that you can fix to a base. |
Dervel  | 21 Oct 2014 3:25 p.m. PST |
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 etotheipi  | 21 Oct 2014 5:14 p.m. PST |
+1 to the several dowel approach. inlgames.com/saucers.htm How are you going to scale the balloons? 1:56 hot air balloons might be a bit big for the table. I did some representative ones from Christmas ornaments. Not to scale, but they look OK and play nice. |
| bandit86 | 21 Oct 2014 10:23 p.m. PST |
How about an old car antenna? |
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