Building a Photography Diffusion Panel: Connecting PVC Pipe

Video Transcript

"On this clip all we're going to do is run this bungee cord material through the inside of our plastic. If you wind up with a bungee cord that's got a little bit of body to it, it makes it a whole lot easier. Just want to run it down until it comes out the other end. You want to go ahead and run a connector on in between each piece. Put on a small one, put on a big one, put on a small one, put on a big one. This takes a few minutes but this will make your life a lot simpler when you go to put it together and take it apart to store. The bungee cord allows you to keep everything in the order that it needs to be. You can just kind of like pull it apart. Ok we've come out the far end. I'm going to start threading the bungee cord through the other end of it and so in order for this not to pull through on this side I'm just going to tie a simple knot to keep it from falling back through. You don't want to have to thread this through more than once. Ok we've added both of our vertical pieces. Just adding the last L bracket on there. Now we're going to add the very last horizontal piece. Just run the bungee cord through just like we've done before. Fit that in there and tie what we've got going on over here. And before we attach these two pieces we need to pull this kind of taut. The knot here doesn't really matter if it comes undone. You can retie it. What I do is I tie them together and then I tie a knot on each cord to keep the other knots from coming undone. If you, if you smoke and have a lighter around you can actually burn the edges of these. They're plastic and it will keep it from coming loose. Now we're just going to snip the excess off of here and we're going to run those knots down inside. Firm up our, firm up our four corners. And that is the framework for our diffusion panel."