Kipk9

see if i have this right....

see my recent posts on the improved cryptex it requires little sanding and fits perfect into ammo cans. final is 3"x 10.5 ". with a1 1/4 " internal width

so the cryptex made accoring to plans require a lot of sanding and is very narrow i have improved cryptex building so you dont have to sand anywhere near as much Buy a carlon e945g 1 1/4 in pvc expansion fitting. this is two tubes one fitting inside the other. you can use this to make the inner tube and outer tube of the container. the unit is 1.971in wide so it fits inside a 2" schedule40pipe . so the rings are made of 1/4" pieces of 2" pipe to make the inner ring and a1/2" section of a 2" coupling. piece to make the outer ring. when all is fitted together the inner tube is 1 1/4" wide the cryptex assembled is 3" wide and 10 inches long. when i can figure out how to post pics. i will put some up

so making a cryptex requires four tubes, each fitting inside each other. the key item you need to make the cryptex talked about above (sorry it took so long to get back) is a carlon e945g 1 1/4 expansion pipe fitting this has two tubes one fitting inside the other. i use this to form the two two inner tubes according to the well known cryptex design however since this fitting is exactly 1.971 inch wide it slides into a 2" schedule 40pvc pipe, so the outer rings of a cryptex are made from 1/4"sections of 2" pipe, glued inside the outer ring, composed of a 2" pipe coupling piece of 1/2"width. all fit together with no sanding needed! use these according to the classic cryptex instructions.

will do, give me a few days

so i have been wanting to start building cryptex from pvc pipe and on the internet, alll the internal locked cryptex instructions are based on an internal tube of 3/4 inch which is fine but small and notaprticularly watertight. you also have to do a lot of sanding so each tube fits (basically four tubes). i have been giving this some thought about how to make it bigger and easier to make....then due entirely to a coincidence in which i was building a pvc conduit in the garden for electrical cable under the grass, i came across an perfect solution...a length expandable grey electrical conduit ( not schedule40 pvc) pipe to base a larger diameter cryptex on. these can be found at lowes in the electrical ( not plumbing) section for about seven bucks..the 8 inch length variable conduit tube also has two watertight seals vetweenthe inner and outer tube for electrical conduit... it is not schedule 40 pvc but slightly smaller. amazingly i found this fits perfectly into 2 inch schedule 40 pvc pipe.....which can then fit into 2 inch pvc coupling. the great things about a crptex made from these pipes similar to the standard plans are... 1).you can use the instructions on thegeocache site for a cryptex but there is no need to sand/ shimmy down any of the four tubes..... 2 ) the internal rings of the codex is made of2" pipe, the external in made of 2" couplings. 3) the inner grey expandable two tube set is water sealed due to two rurbber gaskets. 4) the internal tube is 1.5", double the size of the posted andusually followed cryptex instructions. you can now have atube for small treasures. 5) the lock is internal not external as seen with most bigger tube plans. 6) endcaps made of 2 inch pipe ends with an internal 2" pipe piece glued to the 1.5 inch electrical cable if this is gobbledygook. post or email me and ill try to posti pics kipk9