UWH Puck - selfmade

Does someone know principle for self-made of uwh puck....i would like to try making a puck, but i don't know how to start..anybody know something what i need for this job?..

Hmmm... this sounds like a joke to me, so here's my solution. If there is a pool to be decommisioned, you can try this recepie:
1. Take 1Kg divers lead, and with angle grinder and knife try getting the round shape
2. Take a water resistant duck tape, and try to make it look like a puck. If this doesnt work, then use silicon.

There's bound to be more recepies like this one out there...

Other than solutions like this, one needs a tool for lead, another tool for plastics, a machine to fill plastics, and if its a puck with discs - a machine to shape plastic disk or another tool to make plastic discs, plus a boaring machine,few screws and several general hand tools. Experiance in doing this process is... well... at least desirable, and damn cost efective!

A puck is under high mechanical stress & abrasion, and has to remain its shape for long periods of time. Becouse we play with professionally produced pucks, is the reason why pool bosses let us play UWH in their pools! In the late 70's there was a group of divers in Slovenia trying to play something like prehistoric-UWH in one of our pools, just to be forbidden to try it again, as they used home-made puck, that by the end of first game, ruined the tiles on the bottom. (Back than it was a concrete pool.... so they destroyed the bottom)

Conclusion.... If you had to ask how to do it, then my advice is: Dont do it!

Buy one can of FAXE danish beer -it is made of steel and has 80 mm diameter,after drinking the beer cut the beer can in half and you can use it as the form to melt lead,which you can get from the local tire shop.

make a mould out of timber or something, maybe even an empty tuna can.
melt some lead fishing sinkers in a bigger tin can over a camping stove (or an old pot on the stove), pour into mould. leave to cool, break mould.
don't know how you'd do the plastic bit.

Thnx for the ideas....part with lead is done....and now ...does somebody know how to make a plastic part...what kind of material to use....

um, remember that lead is poisonous.

Lead is the easy part. But like Otto said. "remember that lead is poisonous."
As possible use lead from old broken pucks.

THe disk below and on top. Are easy to make.But far more easy is to use existing plate's
THe most differcult thing is the"rubber"outside from the puck.

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I am in the process of developing a new puck, mostly to provide my club with less expensive and high quality puck. The first prototype was good, its was very fast very stable and flicked like I have never seen, but my process control wasn't that great on it and it stated coming apart. So I am on prototype #2 right now, I plan to test it tonight. The details of how to do it, well you have to learn to mold/cast platics and of course find the right materials, have the right tools, have the right skills, and a couple of other things. None of this stuff is easy, some of it toxic and the set of tools that you need to do it right might cost $300+ US and the materials you need aren't cheap either. If you are only planning to make one or two pucks its really not worth it.

but here is what you can do once you learn the techniques, the second prototype is on the left and the original is on the right, I expect the second one to be noticably better, but I will be testing it tonight, they are 33.5mm high, 81mm wide, and weight 1.145 kg (uses a true blue core)

I think the most important reason by some clubs to make there own pucks. To bad that some "diving"clubs simply make lead disks and so destroy the pool.
I realy like it to see that the own made pucks are all plastic/rubber protected.

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Its easy to make comments.
But like some other uwh world members i did make some lighter pucks for my own club.(we reduced the weight to 870 gram) Because different reasons.

We are still testing this new model were in the past we made own made pucks that did look something like the old bontje.
This is a self made design. It only looks like the bontje because the replaceble plates.

Technical specifications "Speedy" and the specification off the Bontje :
Weight: these first pucks were 870 gram, next will be 1,1 kg/1,3 kg
Height: total 3,6 cm /3,5 cm
Diameter: 8,1 cm/ 8,2 cm

These pucks will not be made for other teams!

First results:
1.Still a nice flick, but you can feel its a lighter puck.
1.2 .Feeling when flicking forwards is between the 1300Bontje and the Simms puck.(closer to the Simms) Only you can not flick as far because the reduced weight
2.Supricing stable. Were our first lighter home made pucks were unstable these were stable.
3.They side very easy. Like a new puck. But we want to now iff that is still so when we raise the weight.(now they glide like an new CanAm universal)
4.Testing was done with "knuffelwuppie"sticks. With Sven-h3 sticks. And a old wooden stick looking like the Bjorg H3.(early model)
5.The soft grey compound is not as good quality as the harder green compound we tested.

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