8 Ft. Tall Stalk-Around costume

Step 5 Building the frame: Arms

To make one of the arms you'll need to start with one 42" pipe, Now instead of cutting the pipes right down the middle I cut them a couple inches off from it, due to the fact that in real life the upper arm is a little longer that the forearm, so instead of cutting it at 21" I cut it at 19".
after there cut the the next thing you need to do is to put the eye bolts on the connectors, I used two end caps for the longer pipe and one 90° for the shorter pipe, I found the easiest way to screw them in is to first make a small indentation on the tops of the connectors using a nail, Then screw the eye loops in, once they got to hard to turn by hand I stuck the tip of a pencil in the loop, and used the pencil as a lever, Then take one of the 90°s and placed it onto one end of the shorter pipe, Now take a small pipe and insert it in the other end of the 90° Then cut to desired length(These serve as handles.)Next take the two 90°s and put them on both ends of the longer pipe, Finally I placed the arm pieces together and secure them with two zip ties linked together. Repeat these steps to make the second arm! To connect the arms to the body frame you'll need two more end caps with eye bolts, But rather then have the eye bolts connect to the front have them connect to the sides
(as shown in picture 16 & 17) those connect to the frame, secure the arms to the frame using zip ties as done before!