>>1935170Do you own a hand drill? How about a hand tap and die set? A good pliers for bending wire? A plumbing torch? Hacksaw?
Ingredients list:
5/16ths brake line (at least a foot, tube works too if your hardware store stocks tube stock in appropriate lengths)
1/4 inch rod stock (4-6 inches more than the brake line)
#12 washers and lock nuts
Wood slats
Brad nails
Waterproof glue
Flag pole (telescopic if you want, buy a cheap extendable shop magnet if you're too dumb to find it for sale)
Flag (orange duct tape works fine)
Door stopper spring (if you're too dumb to heat treat steel wire into a spring)
10 gauge steel wire (1-2 feet depending on whether you buy the door stopper spring)
Plastic spool (3d print something or buy this, alternately recycle something)
That's all you need to make a non folding, no depth adjustment for the spool, version of that design.
To make it fold and depth adjustable, you need a round hub big enough to hold the tube and a wingscrew to grab the tube after you've set the depth. This can be anything, plastic, brass, aluminium, steel, whatever you've got the gumption to drill two reasonably square holes in using a v block or a sacrificial bit of wood you can drill a hole your round hub stock fits in snugly. Obviously this is more easily done on a drill press (or a proper machine tool) but it's not impossible to do by hand).
Like I said, it's kinda dumb to use +$100 worth of tools and $15 worth of materials to make something that costs $10.
