Using any combination of 3″ PVC + Couplers + Reducers + Elbows a person could EASILY make a dice tower or as I’m calling it now, a Chaos Cylinder. Since it’s a cylinder shape and the dice would bounce chaotically around in it. The only really hard part would be a base for it to stand on but a piece of 1×4 and some hot glue or screws and you’d have a decent base.
My thought was something like this. Take a 3″ 90 degree elbow ($3) and a piece of 3″ tubing (10′ for $6) cut to the height you want. Drill a series of holes around the 3″ tube and insert some wooden dowels ($2-$4). Glue a 3″ to 2″ reducer ($3) upside down on one of the 3″ tubing, this gives you a ‘feed tube’ and makes for a neater appearance (as in cleaner). Stick your elbow on the end of the tube as the ‘outflow’.  Now mount this to a base of some kind and work up some kind of catch basin, a simple box made of a pice of 1×4 or 1×6 with some 1/2″ square hobby boards used to build a fence around it. and then mount a 1×2 on one side and clamp your tower to that.
Another option would be discard the elbow and cut a 45″ slope on one end of your tube. Now take a piece of 3″ post and cut it at a 45 degree and put that in the bottom of the tube so the dice hit it and fall out.
So for about $20 give or take and a little work you too could have a Chaos Theory Cylinder…. *dun dun dunnnnn*
If there’s any interest I could do one of these with some of the options and post some step by steps.
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