Scaffolding up, tubes arrived and knitting started

We now have all 113 rolls of tubing from Dynex which makes up 3990m in length. Each roll is 30m and has an internal diameter of 5.5mm.

We are using 40mm dowling to knit with. We are making panels that are 1m x 2m.

Our scaffolding has also gone up for us to start testing out our project. It is 2m x 2m x 6m.

6m high scaffold and rolls of tubing

Knitting the tubing

Now we just have to test out the knitted panels with Water Dynamics and then start knitting.

Materials and sponsorship

Thank you to all of our generous sponsors, without their help this project wouldn't be possible.

Water Dynamics who are helping us with everything to do with pumping water through our installation. Such as a pump, an air injector system, a tank and all of the connections. http://www.waterdynamics.co.nz/

Access Scaffolding who have provided us with the structure our project will be supported by. They have given us a 2x2x6m scaffold system to use. http://www.scaffolding.co.nz/

Dynex Extrusions Ltd who gave us a huge discount on our 4000m of tubing which has a 5.5mm internal diameter. http://www.dynex.co.nz/

Hi-Q Electronics Ltd who gave us 1000 cable ties to connect our knitted panels. http://www.hiq.co.nz/

3M who gave us tape to use. http://www.3m.com/

Knitting on a larger scale

Today I have tested out 40m of 5mm vinyl tubing in order to find out wether this tube is suitable on a larger scale.

40m before

40m after

The tube worked out quite well on this scale. 40m of tubing covered an area of 800mm x 400mm
= 320 000mm²

Ideally what we want is one side to be 8m x ~1m which is an area of 8000000mm²

Knitting 40m of tubing took approximately 40 minutes therefore about 1 minute per metre of tubing

If we have 4 sides each 8m x 1m then according to these calculations we will need 4000m of tubing
If we have 3 sides each 8m x 1m then according to these calculations we will need 3000m of tubing