Equipment/Field Events: Make Your Own PVC Pipe Javelin Case

Dick Moss, Editor

The javelin throw is a great event, but traveling with a javelin can be a pain. Traveling javelin chuckers must be constantly mindful of tip damage and teammate-stabbing.

Fortunately, you can make your own inexpensive, protective javelin case out of PVC sewer pipe. Here's how.

Materials
Purchase the following materials from your local hardware store:

A length of 4” diameter PVC (plastic) sewer pipe.
A 4” diameter PVC sewer cap.
A 4” diameter PVC sewer clean-out adapter with threaded sewer plug.
Duct tape.
Short length of nylon rope.

Directions
Simply use PVC glue to permanently attach the sewer cap to the bottom of the sewer pipe. Then glue the clean-out adapter to the other end. The sewer plug screws in and out of the adapter to open and close the javelin case.

You can make a simple handle by duct-taping the ends of a short piece of nylon rope to the outside of the pipe. And you can jazz up the case by painting it in your school colours.

Dick Moss (Editor), PE Update.com

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