Yarn Girls
Cotton candy is known by different names in the Arab countries and in different parts of the world, but it shares one important thing, which is its sweet taste and fragile texture that melts in the mouth with ease, and the demand of children and adults to buy it immediately upon seeing it without hesitation, and some take selling cotton candy as a primary or secondary profession. For them, because it brings them satisfactory profits, especially in the festive seasons and the summer and spring seasons, when families often go to parks for entertainment.
Making a cotton candy machine
Necessary tools
- Small motor, which can be obtained from moving children's toys such as cars and planes.
- Cover of a carbonated water bottle, provided that the cover is metal.
- A carbonated water bottle is human being that it is plastic.
- A circular piece of plastic or wood, not less than 15 cm in diameter.
- Electric charger.
- Sharp scalpel.
- Wax individual.
- nail and hammer.
- Switch.
- Sticky tape.
manufacturing steps
- Using a sharp scalpel, the upper part of the plastic soda bottle is separated so that it takes the form of a short syringe, then the wide part of the syringe is sliced longitudinally except when it is possible to bend the longitudinal parts outwards so that they take the form of a circular base, then a large circular hole is made in the lid of the bottle PVC.
- The plastic packaging cover is unscrewed from the packaging, then the motor is installed inside the hole that was made in the cover, so that the motor head is upwards, while the motor wire hangs downward.
- The cover of the plastic bottle is rewound in its place, taking into account that the wire dangling from the motor is passed through the opening of the plastic package before wrapping the cover around it.
- Using a wax spreader, the circular base of the plastic package is installed in the center of the diameter of the circular piece made of plastic or wood, then left aside until the wax dries completely.
- Using a nail and hammer, make a small circular hole in the middle of the metal cap of the soda bottle.
- The motor head is inserted into the small circular hole in the metal cover, provided that the metal cover is mounted on the motor upside down.
- Using a sharp scalpel, the internal copper at the end of the wire extending from the motor is exposed, and in the same way the internal copper at the end of the wire extending from the charger is exposed, then the ends of the two copper wires are connected to each other, either by wrapping them around each other or through Connect each to one of the terminals of the electrical switch.
- The exposed part of the copper shall be wrapped with adhesive tape to avoid any accidents.
- Connect the charger to electricity to ensure that the cotton candy machine is spinning.
