In recent years, ecotyle fans have come up with many ideas that can be made from beer cans, plastic bottles, packages and other improvised garbage. In the hands of the masters all this acquires a new life, becoming decorative fences, chandeliers, toys ... But can one believe that from the most usual beer cans you can make a real TV antenna, besides, this homemade antenna will work just as well as the traditional room? Here, you will not try - you will not know ... So, we propose to dispel all doubts of convinced skeptics and conduct an unusual creative experiment - to make a TV aerial from beer cans by our own hands.
Antenna from aluminum cans - what is needed for this?
To make a self-made antenna from beer cans, we need the smallest amount of working material. You can easily find everything you need in minutes at home. Prepare the materials:
- two empty beer cans - their name absolutely does not matter, because the shape, size and composition of the cans of all manufacturers is exactly the same, this can be no doubt;
- two small self-tapping screws for metal;
- it will be very handy if you can get the most common soldering iron and a little bit of tin for soldering;
- the RG 6U marking cable (the most standard, used for all types of antennas), its length is determined on the basis of how far our improvised antenna from the TV will be; but even if it will be on the TV itself, it is very desirable to stock up two or three meters of the cable;
- an ordinary wooden hanger;
- tape or tape; to get an adhesive tape is much easier, but it is better to use electrical tape, it is better for strength reasons and safety, in particular, it is important if there are small children.
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Well, perhaps, that's all. We can begin our experiment - we proceed to manufacture a television antenna from beer cans.
How to make an antenna from a can?
- Getting down to work, the first thing we do is draw an antenna drawing from beer cans to have a guide in the work. Schematically our product will look like this:
- Fig. Drawing
- Now we are getting down to business. Let's start, perhaps, with the most painstaking work at this stage - the preparation of a television cable. So, take the knife, gently cut the upper soft cover of the cable around the circle and remove it. Under the upper shell is the next layer, reminiscent of its appearance foil - it's a screen. Next, we see again a soft protective layer, and inside it is a rod - this is the cable itself, through which the television signal will pass. So, we cut the centimeters to the 10 upper protective layer, then gently bend the fingers of the screen, twist it, cut off the middle protective layer.
- On the other side of the cable there is such a plug - we will connect it to the TV afterwards.
- Now we take two beer jars, we make holes with screws and connect the screen to one bank, and to the other - the core of the television cable. You can simply press the cable firmly with a screw, but it will be safer if you can solder it.
- Next, we need an ordinary wooden hanger. It is important that it was made of wood, and in no case is not made of metal.
- Well, finally, with the help of an insulating tape or an adhesive tape we catch beer cans to the hanger and our masterpiece is ready!
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Now it's a little problem - we connect the cable to the TV, we bring the antenna from the beer cans closer to the window, where a stronger and stable TV signal is, and we are convinced of its efficiency.