I was thinking of making some tubular bumpers and a rack as winter projects but perhaps square or rectangular might be a good option but from what I have seen they don't look as nice... so.. as a request maybe you could show me your great looking bumpers and roof racks made of square to rectangular tubing. thanks, peter
----- Original Message ----- From: "George Goff" <THX0001@AOL.COM> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 10:48 PM Subject: Re: Home Made Bull Bars--Pipe Benders
> In a message dated 9/30/04 6:31:22 PM, gary2a@TELUS.NET writes: > > << You > > can also use weld elbows and piece the whole thing together, no bending > > required. > > . . . Also, all the bends > > will be either 90 or 45 degrees. This does not look correct. >> > > This is not correct. While in an ideal world all fit-ups would be made > with > 90's and 45's, the nice thing about butt weld ells is that they can be cut > to > any amount of sweep from 1 to 89 degrees. > > George > |
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