[tcb] Re: Camping accessory
- From: sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:15:24 -0800 (PST)
That seems like a rather simple job. But may I ask why you are using rod
instead of tubing? That things gonna be heavy compared to tubing.
--- On Thu, 3/10/11, Gerald Livingston <gerald.tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Gerald Livingston <gerald.tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [tcb] Camping accessory
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thursday, March 10, 2011, 8:01 PM
Some before and after pictures of (part of) the new camping accessory
are at http://texasvolksbus.org/ctt/.
<rant>
I've discovered that NO ONE bends mild steel rod any more. I've called
every fabrication shop in the area and they start talking about
presses and too tight of a radius and blah blah blah.
I need two pieces of 1/2" rod bent into neat, tight radius, ovals. 20
years ago a phone call would have Joe Bob the home fabricator setting
up a jig on a plate of 1/4" steel and using a torch to hand bend the
rod around a couple of 3" thick wall steel pipe sections.
Now nobody wants to actually TOUCH the metal they're working on.
</rant>
G2
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