Dome If You Want To

Tonight, we assembled our new 16′ diameter PVC dome. The result of two solid Saturdays of work, it came together beautifully. Now we just need to disassemble it and move all the furniture back in before tomorrow’s class…

The members are 1″ PVC pipe. We flattened the ends by heating them briefly in the kiln…

… and clamping them between two handy bits of heavy metal.

A few minutes with the drill press to finish them up…

… add a few bolts, washers, and nuts to flavor.

And then take it all down to adjust the angles…

Put it back up…

Just a few more bolts, and there you are. All dome!

Now you can dome in the morning, you can dome at night, you can dome when you wanna dome.