[Bob] was having trouble keeping up with his water troughs. He had to constantly check them to make sure they weren’t empty, and he always found that the water level was lower than he thought.

Attach them to the bucket with 10 No. 4 machine screws, nuts and washers. Cut a 4-inch-diameter PVC pipe as long as the bucket is high; set the pipe into the end cap. Use a 4-inch-to-2-inch ...

I need to replace the end cap on a PVC pipe. The current cap is just a standard PVC cap that I can find at Home Depot for 50 cents. However, none of them have 1/4" threaded holes. I am not ...

Build the box out of ½-inch-thick plywood, 1-inch deck screws, two light switches ... a few feet of 1½-inch-diameter PVC pipe and smooth PVC couplings and pipe end caps. Start by boring paths ...

Now attach the PVC pipe to one of the water bottle caps as shown in the video and it’s ready to go. Put dirty water in the bottle without the pipe, set it down in the sun, and screw on the caps.