How to make a glowing ball of plastic cups do it yourself

Step 1. You will need:

1. Wire stand
2. Packaging of plastic cups
3. New Year's garland on 150 mini light bulbs
4. Soldering iron

Step 2. We start to make a ball!

To begin with, take a pair of plastic cups and a soldering iron. We press the glasses to each other and skeing the soldering iron hole at the top. We are waiting for, when a little cool, and squeeze your fingers so that it brightened better.

Step 3. Add a few cups.

In the same way we solder the following cups.

Step 4. ... and even more glasses!

Now add three more cups on each side of the first group of four.

Step 5. We continue to add glasses

Now simply add new and new cups until the ball works. The main thing Leave a couple of spaces so that you have access to the middle.

Step 6. Find the center

Put the resulting ball on the table and determine which glass it will be downstairs. Introduce it with a cross. It is useful to you for the future when you stand to do.

Step 7. Making a bowl luminous

Light bulbs We will be mounted in holes made by a soldering iron in the bottom of each cup. The hole for the bulb is better to do slightly smaller diameter than the light bulb itself. So she will keep tightly. Thus thus three light bulbs in each cup. (150 light bulbs ~ 50 cups). Start from the cup marked with X and continue to the top.

Step 8. Install the ball on the stand

Once all the light bulbs are installed, you can finally put the ball on the stand. Stand Breppy at the very place marked by H.

Step 9. We rejoice!

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