Subject: need some steel tubing
Author: Bruce Giller
Date: Jun 14, 2001, 9:20 AM
Post ID: 1707115724
Rich Maund had made me a really nice backrest to fit on my Triple A
sissy bar replacing the original foam-in-a-bag rest. It has a plywood
backing, 2" of carefully sculpted foam, black with red pinstriping to
match the R.M. seat and handmade silver powdercoated clamps (really just
bent 1/8" thick bar stock). My wife really likes the comfort and feel
of the new rest but it also pushes her forward to where the seat seams
cross the top of the seat.
My idea is to bend a new sissy bar where it is bent back an extra 2" to
compensate for the new backrest. My problem is finding some tubing to
bend. I measured the original item with the following results:
5/8" OD
.0625" wall thickness (1/16")
This means that the ID is 1/2". The only real important dimension is
the OD since the clamps were made for a 5/8" tube. I called around to a
few sheetmetal places and tubing supplies without results. Even went to
the McMaster-Carr website and found that they have some 1020 DOM tubing
with a .527" ID x 5/8" OD and a .049" wall thickness, 6 ft long for $14.
Not having much experience bending steel, can this tubing be bent with
home shop methods?
Is there another source of tubing out there?? Triple A must have
gotten their tubing somewhere!
Bruce
'72 Eldo