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Tubing for Luggage Area
John P - 26/8/09 at 06:14 PM

Is there any reason I couldn't use 20mm conduit to make the tube which forms the rear of the luggage area?

John.


daviep - 26/8/09 at 06:30 PM

No problem using 20mm tube but personally I wouldn't use conduit for anything other than conduit it's made from absolute rubbish.

Davie


omega 24 v6 - 26/8/09 at 06:40 PM

As said it's made of crap material.
BUT it's what i used as the price was less than locost


Michael - 26/8/09 at 08:16 PM

I too used conduit.

Still in build stage though.


Ninehigh - 28/8/09 at 01:45 AM

Last time I heard of conduit was on an episode of Star Trek... so what's this version?


MikeRJ - 28/8/09 at 07:10 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Ninehigh
Last time I heard of conduit was on an episode of Star Trek... so what's this version?


Conduit


Ninehigh - 28/8/09 at 06:30 PM

Looks like the kind of stuff old tents are made of!


Mark Allanson - 28/8/09 at 08:54 PM

quote:
Originally posted by omega 24 v6
As said it's made of crap material.
BUT it's what i used as the price was less than locost


Its not crap, it just has a very high lead content to make it easily workable.

There is no crap metal, just inappropriately used metal


rusty nuts - 30/8/09 at 06:19 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Mark Allanson
quote:
Originally posted by omega 24 v6
As said it's made of crap material.
BUT it's what i used as the price was less than locost


Its not crap, it just has a very high lead content to make it easily workable.

There is no crap metal, just inappropriately used metal



Sorry Mark I have to disagree. Mazak? AKA monkey metal is crap


MikeRJ - 30/8/09 at 08:02 PM

quote:
Originally posted by rusty nuts
Sorry Mark I have to disagree. Mazak? AKA monkey metal is crap


The original stuff made during the war when zinc of the required purity was impossible to obtain tended to self destruct, but modern zinc alloys are fine.


Mark Allanson - 30/8/09 at 09:21 PM

Even mazak has genuine uses, in places where it will not encounter any stresses, or corrosive environments, or anything that a component made of an alloy of sugar and cheese would be considered to be at risk of failing