[Help] how do i make an hourglass Updates to this post /post/1252-how-do-i-make-an-hourglass Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:15:54 +0100 Reply from flower_12 /post/1252-how-do-i-make-an-hourglass#reply-5340760 Go to http://www.instructables.com/id/How-t…

]]> flower_12 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:28:02 +0100 Reply from i.ogun /post/1252-how-do-i-make-an-hourglass#reply-5076902 Step 1 Visit your local beach and collect a bucket of sand. You won’t need the whole bucket, but it is easier to have leftovers than to end up with not enough sand. If you don’t have any beaches near your home you can buy sand at any craft store.
Step 2
Save two 2-liter plastic bottles of soda after you have finished drinking the soda. Clean out the soda bottles with dish soap and water and lay out to dry. You are not going to be able to get the water out of the bottle with a towel so make sure it is completely air-dried before you use it.
Step 3
Take out one of your plastic soda bottles and a funnel. Place the funnel over the soda bottle so that the little end is inside of the soda bottle and the big end is ready for you to pour sand in. Pour the sand into the funnel. You want your bottle to get about 3/4 of the way full before you stop.
Step 4
Stand your empty bottle upside down and place its opening up against the sand bottle’s opening. Tape the two bottle tops together with duct tape. You need a strong tape so that the bottles do not get separated and leave you with sand everywhere.
Step 5
Flip your plastic bottles so that the empty one is on the bottom. Start your stopwatch and stop it when all of the sand has transferred bottles. Now you have your base time. Say it took 3 minutes for the sand to empty. Now every time you flip the bottles you know you have 3 minutes.

]]> i.ogun Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:58:34 +0100 Reply from bl /post/1252-how-do-i-make-an-hourglass#reply-5050118 Water and Oil. You can also colour the water to make it more beautiful.

]]> bl Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:26:59 +0100 Reply from your-retarde /post/1252-how-do-i-make-an-hourglass#reply-5011934 i need to make an hour glass for a school project…we have to make a game board in social studies and everything has to be hand made…(i know what the heck is our teacher thingking!?) so i have to make an hourglass by hand…wow yay :(

]]> your-retarde Thu, 14 May 2009 21:38:22 +0100 Reply from erickahes /post/1252-how-do-i-make-an-hourglass#reply-4814121 idk but i need to know to.

]]> erickahes Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:56:35 +0100 Reply from lulimago /post/1252-how-do-i-make-an-hourglass#reply-4440021 get two funnels and use duct tape or any strong tape at the bottom of the funnels. use aluminum foil on 1 funnel. put salt in. put aluminum foil on top of other funnel
flip until salt is all gone into the other foil.

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]]> parra_matta_ro Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:12:33 +0100 Reply from gatorade34 /post/1252-how-do-i-make-an-hourglass#reply-38955 water! take two soda bottles (preferably about 2liter sizes), fill one with water, join them together at the necks with a strong tape. when you invert one, the water will spill into the one below. flip it over and it does it again. time it to see how long it takes the water to go from the top bottle to the lower one and that is how your “hour glass” is timed. I.E. if it takes 20 secs for the water to go through, then you have a 20sec timer.

side note, this is usually used for “bottle tornados” but you get the same affect.

anyway, probably too late for this now since I’m sure your deadline has passed but its a good lesson for you to learn. Don’t wait until the last minute to start a project like this.

]]> gatorade34 Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:56:32 +0100