Making a Fridge Magnet Flower Vase

Step 3 Put together the clamp and magnet

Take your utility knife and cut off one of the arms on a cable clamp, so you only have one piece of plastic for the magnet to sit on and you can put a full 360 around the tube. You want to cut down from the top, not to the side. See picture for illustration of what the heck I'm talking about.

Once that's done you put some of the serious glue on the edge you just created and glue down the clamp so it's a completed circle. Use a C-Clamp or anything like that to hold it in place and let the glue dry.

Once the glue on the clamp is dry, it's time to put on the magnet. A 1/2" diameter magnet fits the end of the cable clamp very nicely. Put some glue on the magnet and the cable clamp, then put it on a sacrificial something like aluminum foil so if the glue spills over on it you can tear it off and it's not a problem. Then put the whole thing down on a piece of metal so the magnet "pulls" down. Move the clamp around as the magnet sticks down so it's how you want it and then let the glue dry.

Once that was all dried, I decided to spray paint it yellow. You can just leave it bare if you want.
One tip - before spray painting plastic, you want to give it a hard scrub with soap and water to get rid of any oils or mold release agents used when it was made.

Finally, because the plastic is slick and the tube weight is off to the side, if you left it alone the tube vase would rotate on the magnet. This is not good. Take a small piece of sandpaper and glue it with white glue (or the glue of your choice, it doesn't have to be the super strong stuff) to the bottom of the plastic cable clamp. This acts as a friction surface so the vase doesn't rotate on the fridge.