Badger_McLetcher
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| posted on 5/4/11 at 01:15 PM |
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12" Diameter tube
As per the title, need some tube 12" in diameter and ideally about 22" long, though it several pieces joined together could be used.
Material doesn't matter, as long as it's relatively rigid. Any ideas?
If disfunction is a function, then I must be some kind of genius.
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jossey
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| posted on 5/4/11 at 01:21 PM |
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gas bottle.
i had a gas bottle years ago which was 12" roughly. i know cos i used it for making a water heater from it.
Thanks
David Johnson
Building my tiger avon slowly but surely.
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hughpinder
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| posted on 5/4/11 at 02:30 PM |
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middle of a cable drum?
Hugh
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HowardB
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| posted on 5/4/11 at 02:34 PM |
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cardboard tube,... or rolled steel, nylon tube?
what is it for?
Howard
Fisher Fury was 2000 Zetec - now a 1600 (it Lives again  and goes zoom)
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RazMan
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| posted on 5/4/11 at 02:38 PM |
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Stainless pedal bin?
Cheers,
Raz
When thinking outside the box doesn't work any more, it's time to build a new box
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Badger_McLetcher
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| posted on 5/4/11 at 05:00 PM |
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Thanks for the suggestions guys, it's for the inner former of a foundry I'm making. I could bend up some out of the sheet steel I've
got handy but it just seems a waste of metal tbh! It only needs to be used once to form the refractory around, but thinking about it would need to be
water proof or it would go soggy during the casting. I could varnish some carboard I suppose!
A plastic pipe would be perfect- don't suppose anyone knows where I could get one that size?!? Will also have a look at gas bottles but I
havn't seen any that large in quite a while.
If disfunction is a function, then I must be some kind of genius.
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matt_gsxr
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| posted on 5/4/11 at 05:20 PM |
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A pile of 4 quality street tins
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bi22le
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| posted on 5/4/11 at 05:53 PM |
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Funny that. I drove past a pipe supplier today. The plastic pipe used for underground waterworks. They have shed loads of all different sizes. I bet
they would cut you off a small bit for pennies.
Dont ask me the name of the company, I dont even know where I was, south coast near Hastings area.
Hunt down your local and give them a shout.
HTH
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bi22le
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| posted on 5/4/11 at 05:54 PM |
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Or you could get the side of an old washing machine \ appliance and use that.
Soz, could not be bothered to edit /\ post!!
Biz
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HowardB
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| posted on 5/4/11 at 05:56 PM |
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the quality street tins gets my vote - yum
if it's just a former, then surely something wrapped in polythene would be ok? saves varnish,...
Howard
Fisher Fury was 2000 Zetec - now a 1600 (it Lives again and goes zoom)
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coyoteboy
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| posted on 5/4/11 at 06:36 PM |
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foundry...custom metalwork.....looking forward to this!
Hows about the poly pipe used for water/gas works - there's usually loads of it hanging around roadworks/building sites, pop in and ask or rob
an off-cut overnight?
Then blog how you do it.
[Edited on 5/4/11 by coyoteboy]
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