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Using metal tubing?

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UrbanRider
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i have about a 15 foot round metal tube. What would be tha best way to go from here? other than welding cause the rails not good enough for spending money on i just grabbed it from the dump...
Oct 27 2005 8:39PM
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UrbanRider
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im also building a box...and would using angle iron be ok for the edges or would that not work? that stuff thats |_ like that
Oct 27 2005 10:54PM
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praymantus
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yo man im building a rail in a week or so with metal pipeing and i will post picture for you,,,, and for a box i would sugest leaving a gap on each edge and put your tubing in there instead of 90 degree metal edging
Oct 28 2005 10:24PM
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praymantus
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https://www.newschoolers.com/ns3/web/content/pictures.php?img=46485&

^^^ use that design but go to home depot and get a peice of acrylic and put it on top of the wood in between the pipeing,, thats what im planing on doing
Oct 28 2005 10:30PM
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LeBlanc
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Oct 29 2005 5:33PM
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UrbanRider
Posts: 265 - Karma: 10
nice nice...how do u attatch the metal tubing?
Oct 29 2005 10:25PM
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praymantus
Posts: 161 - Karma: 10
yo come on man look at the picture, its right there. i hate when people are that dumb.
Oct 30 2005 7:08PM
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UrbanRider
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hahaha wow sry...
Nov 4 2005 5:42PM
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danedegruyter
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what if you caught an edge on the wood separating the two pipes, its level with them
Nov 4 2005 7:56PM
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oakjewlery
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you don't have to make it exactally like that dumbass
Nov 10 2005 7:30PM
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