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How To Make A Toy Propeller

This document provides instructions for making toy propellers out of plastic bottles or paper. It describes how to cut plastic sheets or paper board into propeller blades with a center hole. It also explains how to construct a propeller axis using a paper clip, bead, and small plastic bowl. The axis is inserted through the blade's center hole and secured. Reinforcement for paper blades is made from plastic bottle strips with grooves. Completed sample propellers are shown. The goal is to provide instructions to make improvised propellers for different toys.

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How To Make A Toy Propeller

This document provides instructions for making toy propellers out of plastic bottles or paper. It describes how to cut plastic sheets or paper board into propeller blades with a center hole. It also explains how to construct a propeller axis using a paper clip, bead, and small plastic bowl. The axis is inserted through the blade's center hole and secured. Reinforcement for paper blades is made from plastic bottle strips with grooves. Completed sample propellers are shown. The goal is to provide instructions to make improvised propellers for different toys.

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Handout 01 Toy propeller

How to make a toy propeller


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HOW TO MAKE A PROPELLER UNIT

Introduction
We can make improvised propeller units using plastic bottles and paper boards. As an example, I introduce how to
make a propeller unit with a carbonated drink bottle, a paper clip and a bead. We can change the size and design of
propellers to suit them to assorted toys.

1. Materials and tools:
Materials Tools
A plastic bottle
(a 1.25L carbonated drink uniform shape bottles is most
suitable)
A 5mm diameter plastic bead
A triangular shape paper clip
1cm diameter plastic disc or bowl
(cut out from a plastic bottle)
A pair of scissors
A pair of pliers
A pair of compasses with a sharp needle
A ruler
A cutting board
A small rubber cushion

2. Propeller blade


Cut out 14.0cm x 4.0cm plastic
sheets from a bottle.
The rectangular sheet has a
curved surface.

We can collect six sheets from
the bottle on the picture.


Make a hole in the centre of the
sheet using a compass needle.

Cut the sheet into a propeller
shape and make another hole
near the centre like the left
picture.

Trim the edges to avoid injury,
when the blade hits someone.

A photo from below
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3. Propeller axis

From the left side, a paper clip, a
5mm diameter bead, a 1.0cm
diameter plastic bowl. Make a hole
in the centre of the small bowl using
a compass needle.
Open up the first corner of the clip
and make a right angle using pliers.
A paper clip with a right angle.


Insert the straighten wire of the clip
into a 5mm diameter bead.
Insert the wire into the small plastic
bowl.


Pinch the end of the clip using pliers
and twist it like the picture above.
Pinch the opposite side and twist
slightly to the counter direction to
make a hook.
Remove the triangular part..

4. How to fix the axis part on the propeller blade

Pass the free end of the wire into the
centre hole of the propeller blade.
Using pliers, fold down the free end
to make it pass through another hole
on the blade.
Using pliers, fold the end of the wire
like the picture above to fix the axis
part onto the blade.
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HOW TO MAKE A PAPER PROPELLER UNIT
Introduction
If you have a difficulty to find good plastic bottles to make propellers, please use uniform and flat paper board to
make good propellers. Collect a sheet of paper board bigger than 4.0cm x 14.0cm. The suitable thickness is
approximately 0.35 to 0.45mm. Please ask your stationery shop to select good boards. Strong paper lunch box are
also suitable to make propellers. In order to reinforce the propeller we need a plastic bottle which has horizontal
grooves around its circumference.


Bottles suitable to reinforce the paper propellers 4.0cm x 14.0cm paper board
Make a vertical shallow cut on its centre.

1. Materials and tools:
Materials Tools
A paper board (4.0cm x 14.0cm, 0.35 to 0.45cm thick)
A 500 to 700 ml plastic water bottle
A 5mm diameter plastic bead
A triangular shape paper clip
1cm diameter plastic disc or bowl
(cut out from a plastic bottle)
A pair of scissors
A pair of pliers
A pair of compasses with a sharp needle
A ruler
A cutting board
A small rubber cushion

2. Reinforcement part

Cut out top and bottom of the bottle. Cut the centre of the bottle vertically
to make four strips like the picture
above.
Cut the strip like the picture above to
make reinforcement part of the paper
propeller. The flat part has two
grooves on its both sides. They are
important to reinforce the blade.


A finished reinforcement part.
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3. Paper propeller blade

Make sure the paper board must
have a vertical shallow cut in the
middle of the board.
Using a ruler and a compass needle,
make a small hole on the centre of
the paper board.
Press the paper board onto an edge
of a desk. Fold it gently along the
vertical cut to give it V shape.

Place the board on the desk with
concaved side up.
Put the reinforcement part on the
centre of the board.
Then tilt the reinforcement part like
the picture above.
Staple the reinforcement part with
two staples.


Cut the board along the red lines.


Make a hole in the centre of the reinforcement part and another hole about
1cm left of the hole.
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4. Propeller axis (please read HOW TO MAKE A PROPELLER UNIT)

5. How to fix the axis part on the propeller blade
(The photos below have images of transparent plastic propeller blade. Fix the axis part on paper blade exactly
similar to the following instruction.)

Pass the free end of the wire into the
centre hole of the propeller blade.
Using pliers, fold down the free end
to make it pass through another hole
on the blade.
Using pliers, fold the end of the wire
like the picture above to fix the axis
part onto the blade.




Propeller samples

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PAPER PROPELLER TEMPLATE
(to make a simple helicopter, a wind car and a straw kite)

Mar 2011 Nakano (JICA senior volunteer)

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