[tcb] Re: Camping accessory
- From: "w.wood" <evil.scientist.boo@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:35:51 -0600
Okay, I feel like I'm looking at something from Salvador Dali here. What is
it exactly that you're trying to make and have you just considered
stamping it out rather than bending? I looked at the photos but I flunked
abstract art.
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:37 PM, <theresabuckner@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is that like the re-bar Steve & I bent for his tripod . It is to hang a
> dutch oven from ? I have a torch . To bad you live far far away .
> terry
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: tcb <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thu, Mar 10, 2011 8:15 pm
> Subject: [tcb] Re: Camping accessory
>
> 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:
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> From: Gerald Livingston <gerald.tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [tcb] Camping accessory
> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thursday, March 10, 2011, 8:01 PM
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> 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.
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> Now nobody wants to actually TOUCH the metal they're working on.
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> </rant>
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> G2
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