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Step 7Make rope deflector rings
Regular disc golf catchers have sets of chains that hang from an upper structure above the basket which ideally absord the momentum of a flying disc and deflect it down into the basket.
To create a similarly functioning apparatus, I used some 5/32" poly rope. It was $3 for 75 feet at the Home Depot. (I think any similar thin rope would work just fine.)
Cut 24 pieces of rope that are 10" long. Make sure all the pieces are precisely the same.
Cut 12 pieces of rope that are 13" long. Use a lighter on all the ends of the cut pieces to fuse the rope to keep it from fraying.
Cut four strips of fabric that are 3/4" wide, with two that are at least eight inches long, and two that are at least ten inches long.
The 24 shorter pieces of rope should be glued to one of the 8-inch strips of fabric. Space them about 1/16" apart, making sure the ends are all even with the bottom of the strip of fabric. Wrap the strip of fabric into a ring shape, with the ropes facing outward, and glue it together (as in the photos). Glue the additional 8-inch strip of fabric around the outside, sealing the ropes inside a ring of fabric.
Do the same with the longer 12 pieces of rope and the 10-inch strips of fabric.
(If you look at the finished photos of the capcatcher, you may notice that there is a 2 1/2" strip of fabric around the bottom of the outer ring of ropes. I added this to cover up the rounded upper portion of the plastic bottle, which bottle caps would hit and bounce right back out of the catcher. I had cut my ropes a little too short. The measurements I gave for rope lengths in this step eliminate the problem I encountered.)
To create a similarly functioning apparatus, I used some 5/32" poly rope. It was $3 for 75 feet at the Home Depot. (I think any similar thin rope would work just fine.)
Cut 24 pieces of rope that are 10" long. Make sure all the pieces are precisely the same.
Cut 12 pieces of rope that are 13" long. Use a lighter on all the ends of the cut pieces to fuse the rope to keep it from fraying.
Cut four strips of fabric that are 3/4" wide, with two that are at least eight inches long, and two that are at least ten inches long.
The 24 shorter pieces of rope should be glued to one of the 8-inch strips of fabric. Space them about 1/16" apart, making sure the ends are all even with the bottom of the strip of fabric. Wrap the strip of fabric into a ring shape, with the ropes facing outward, and glue it together (as in the photos). Glue the additional 8-inch strip of fabric around the outside, sealing the ropes inside a ring of fabric.
Do the same with the longer 12 pieces of rope and the 10-inch strips of fabric.
(If you look at the finished photos of the capcatcher, you may notice that there is a 2 1/2" strip of fabric around the bottom of the outer ring of ropes. I added this to cover up the rounded upper portion of the plastic bottle, which bottle caps would hit and bounce right back out of the catcher. I had cut my ropes a little too short. The measurements I gave for rope lengths in this step eliminate the problem I encountered.)
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