Easy Laptop Stand

Step 4 Assembling PVC pieces

I cut ½” PVC as follows
2 12” sections for base support
2 2” sections to join elbows
2 20” sections for laptop support arm

For anyone who hasn’t worked with PVC, here’s some suggestions.
Use outside, away from heat.
(Purple) Primer evaporates very fast so try to use quickly and screw cap on tightly right after use.
Get all of your PVC pieces laid out on something clean but disposable (newspaper works). The primer seems to get all over everything. You may want to wear gloves if you don’t want purple all over your hands.
The screw top will have a little round brush (dauber) attached.
Unscrew the top, run the dauber around the inside of both ends of all the elbows and at least an inch around the outside edge of all the PVC pipe ends that need to be glued together. Screw the top back on.

Cement isn’t quite as messy. When cementing you want to do one joint at a time.
Unscrew the top, daub the inside of one side of an elbow and the outside of the PVC, screw the top back on and immediately push the pipe all the way into the elbow. The cement dries quickly so you don’t have much time to adjust anything.

Clean all the PVC pipe and the elbows with the PVC primer.

Glue an elbow on to one of the 12” base supports using PVC cement. Do the other one.

Glue a 2” PVC piece into the other end of one of the base elbows. Do the other one.

Glue an elbow on one of the 20” arms. Do the other.

NOTE: The pictures are just representative of the assembly as my laptop stand was already built.