Subject: RE: need some steel tubing
Author: Scheer, Peter L
Date: Jun 14, 2001, 10:21 AM
Post ID: 1707116608
Bruce
I'm no expert at bending tubing, but from what I have seen, you need a
special tool to bend tubing. Even then, there is some art involved in
getting things right if you go anywhere beyond a simple single radius bend.
This will be a super lonnngshot, but I have a sissy bar that came with the
Ambo last year. Maybe I can scare up a picture if interested.
Pete
71 Ambo
| -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Giller [SMTP:bgil-@mitre.org] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 12:20 PM To: loopframe Subject: need some steel tubing ============================================================ TopOffers. The Smart Shoppers Savings Secret! Cool savings. Hot deals. Free Stuff. All right in your in-box. http://click.topica.com/caaacgKb1dfltb2DJrHa/TopOffers ============================================================ 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 |