hi

i'm waiting for my haynes book to come from amazon but want to order my steel for the chassis.

do you use 25x25x 1.6 mm wall or 2mm wall.

[Edited on 20/3/10 by dt21jb]

1.6 will make a lighter chassis.
2mm is easier to work with.

Personaly I used 2mm.

want it light so going to get 1.6

i'm going to tig weld it so thinner guage wont be a problem.

dan

Tiging it, should make a nice chassis.

Good luck with ya build.

I used 2mm

i used 2 mm aswell, im sure youll get some lovely welds with the tig,but its gunna take you a while!
good luck with it mate

You could go thinner than 1.6mm if your welding's good. MNR do. The use even thinner than that for the chassis made from T45.

I have used a mixture of the 2 for my haynes. the bits that take the most load in 2mm and the others in 1.6

but i am being fanatical about weight on this build.