I issue with the can of worms is every time someone says lynch they get a talking to. Not a good start for someone who just posts on the forum. I admit I was in the wrong assuming that the guy was only here for one post by leaving an email address. I took it as
'i dont what to bother with ya'll. if your gona be a help call me.'
Rude on my part but I apologized and hoped to inspire the guy to try again with help from the forum.
This is a Halloween forum. Not a group study in politics and American history. Everyone on the forum knows I'm a Jesus freak. If somebody wants to make a 9 ft tall laughing satan that bends over and blows smoke rings out its backside and I knew how to make it happen I'd post a how to. The forum's not about my personal convictions and beliefs. It's about Halloween.

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This is very true. This is a network to help others and share all of our experience and know how. I personally have never built a hangman prop so I am of no help.

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Okay, first of all, I know I'm not the only one who read that and started trying to figure out how to build it....

Second - Please consider the following points:
- The original poster meant no offense to anyone, and this was fairly clear in his post.
- Halloween touches many potentially offensive subjects, including murder, torture, abuse, and perversions. Luckily, most of what we deal with (vampires, mummies, zombies, for example) have a nice layer of fantasy surrounding them that insulates us from the incomprehensible terror and evil that we would feel if they were real. "Lynching", however, does not benefit from the protection of fantasy any more than does rape, or child abuse, or concentration camps. We can look at a killer clown with a chainsaw and not think twice, because we know such things do not exist. But when the line gets crossed between fantasy and reality, you can expect people are going to have a more emotional reponse. We should all be mindful of that.
- We are all good people (mostly) talking about bad things. Stuff like this is going to happen inevitably. Hopefully when it does, we can give each other the benefit of the doubt and not let it turn personal.


Third - I for one, would be interested in seeing more information about how to make the joints the original poster asked about.

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O.K. this kinda stuff happens on any forum.
Politics, religion, and sex.
It can set off fire storms and I for one apologize to FX for the way this thread has gone.
It only takes one troll!

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SEX!!!!

What thread contains that subject????

I have to start reading more posts.

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Having heated up some pvc before I would suggest when trying to make these joints to wear heavy leather gloves, just incase the wine glass may break as you push it into the hot plastic.
This whole process becomes one of those try it and see sort of things, whereas most of us use common tools and have experience and knowledge of what to do and not do concerning tooling certain materials.
The hot pvc can almost burn your hands too.
Dosing it with cold water a couple of times when you want it to cool and retain the shape you are holding it in makes it alot easier and more predictable.
When heating pvc a heat gun is better than an open flame , such as a torch.
Constant rotation around the warming pvc is necesarry, it might take some practise not to smoulder and burn the pipe, try this work outdoors for the fire and fumes created.
There you go, that's all I have learned playing with this stuff.

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You know, they make PVC pie with a larger end on one side for long pipe runs so you dont have to buy couplers, can't you buy some of that and cut part of it away to make the joint?
That way you don't have to mess with melting pipe. Just a thought!

Oh and Empress you know I respect you as a talented haunter, but you did incite some anger in me with your response to the post. I don't understand how a WORD can cause so much contoversy! I wish people would quit dwelling in the past! GET OVER IT! this isn't the place for politics! I am adopted and could be Jewish, Italian, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Spanish, Cuban, even a little African American for all I know, if I dwelled in the past Id be pretty F@#%ed- Up! I luv ya girl, but lighten up!

Well it's been almost 6 months since I decided to log in here and what the first post I see? This one being pulled off topic for political correctness by the same person who seems to have appointed themselves the PC police.

Lets be clear here... were are supposed to be talking about halloween and props right?

What is funny is this person doesn't even seem to read the posts that she rants about. If you read the first post in this thread you will see that the poster didn't even USE the word "lynching" in his request... he used "hangman". He posted a link to a website containing the word "lynch" because that is the name of the prop he was referring to. That is the name of the prop. Wil Shock built it... and thats what he called it... so perhaps Empress should take it up with Wil...

These being halloween props... you are going to offend someone... If a bloke hanging in a tree bugs you... Too bad! This is an INTERNET message board accessable by people all over the world. Perhaps props built to look like rats eating severed limbs or even the severed limbs themselves will bring back bad memories to people from the CONGO. WHo knows!!!!

There are enough tragedies that have happened around the world where we can either do whatever we want for halloween... or do nothing but place Disney inflatables in the front yard.

This is not an AMERICAN only message board... if it is... let me know and I will be the first person to get off the ride. So I don't agree with dancing around the topics that might be sensitive in American history.

I've noticed a few things on this board since I've been on it...

I submit that Empress is either freinds with the moderator and is exempt from the rules of staying on topic... or there are no rules... So I would ask the moderator to enforce some "on topic" rules for everyone... even her... this could be a really informative message board if it wasn't so darn annoying to sift though the petty arguments.

Anyways... Maybe I'll log on again next year and see if I can get though 2 posts before she annoys me... That would be fun...

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