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My steel is coming tomorrow!!
aerosam - 29/7/08 at 09:21 PM

Can't wait to get started - I'm having 80m of 1" ERW tube delivered in the morning, and i'm going to be popping down to Cwmbran to see Colin (CJtheman on here) who is sorting me out with some round tube and ally sheet!

It's all getting a bit exciting now!

Miks15 - 29/7/08 at 09:33 PM

Yep its very exciting when the steel comes and you start to lay out the chassis rails.
My chassis is nearly complete now and i stil get excited just looking at the chassis. As every little bit gets added to it, it starts to look more like acar and its a great sense of achievment having built it from scratch!

Good luck with your build, look forward to see your beemer V8 in there!

Mikkel

johnston - 29/7/08 at 09:52 PM

Just out of interest and comparision how much that lot cost you?? and is it getting delivered or are you picking it up??

aerosam - 30/7/08 at 05:07 AM

quote:
Originally posted by johnston
Just out of interest and comparision how much that lot cost you?? and is it getting delivered or are you picking it up??


£170 for 13 6m lengths of 1" ERW tube - delivered.

chris_smith - 30/7/08 at 12:02 PM

out of interest what thickness was it?

David Jenkins - 30/7/08 at 12:16 PM

I suggest that you take a picture of the heap of steel after it's been delivered - it's nice to show what you started with when you finally finish the build.

aerosam - 30/7/08 at 06:48 PM

quote:
Originally posted by chris_smith
out of interest what thickness was it?


It's 1.6mm wall thickness.

well it all arrived earlier and is now residing in the roof space of my garage. well - most of it is, I cut some of the chassis bottom rails earlier and some bits to practice my welding on, turns out my gasless MIG is hopeless, see my other post on welding.