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Source of large diameter thick wall tube
This request isn't exactly for an airplane but it's for a glider winch.
I need to find a source for small amounts of 6.5" OD 1" wall steel tube. I don't care too much about the alloy as long as it's reasonably strong and both machinable and weldable. Thanks in advance. Bill Daniels |
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Source of large diameter thick wall tube
"Bill Daniels" bildan@comcast-dot-net wrote in message
. .. This request isn't exactly for an airplane but it's for a glider winch. I need to find a source for small amounts of 6.5" OD 1" wall steel tube. I don't care too much about the alloy as long as it's reasonably strong and both machinable and weldable. Try Floyd Equipment 2208 Pacific Highway E. Fife, WA 253.922.0200 That's where I get the tube for my cannon barrels. Rich S. |
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Source of large diameter thick wall tube
Ya know, I was thinking that the tubing he was describing would make a
really good cannon myself... John Rich S. wrote: "Bill Daniels" bildan@comcast-dot-net wrote in message . .. This request isn't exactly for an airplane but it's for a glider winch. I need to find a source for small amounts of 6.5" OD 1" wall steel tube. I don't care too much about the alloy as long as it's reasonably strong and both machinable and weldable. Try Floyd Equipment 2208 Pacific Highway E. Fife, WA 253.922.0200 That's where I get the tube for my cannon barrels. Rich S. |
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Source of large diameter thick wall tube
Well, it would be kinda short at 6" long. In cannon terminology, that would
be a 6-1. (The first number is the bore in inches and the second is the barrel length in multiples of the bore.) As I mentioned in a post a couple of years ago, a 30 foot length of 5" drill pipe capped on one end and filled with a mix of oxygen and acetylene then set off with a spark will do a reasonable imitation of a Naval 5-38. I know that because a bunch of very bored roughnecks showed me. ( I also remember what REAL Navy 5-38's sound like.) I really don't need much thick wall tube. Bill Daniels "John Ammeter" wrote in message news:7dOdnYkgrsq2odTYnZ2dnUVZ_uWdnZ2d@cablespeedwa .com... Ya know, I was thinking that the tubing he was describing would make a really good cannon myself... John Rich S. wrote: "Bill Daniels" bildan@comcast-dot-net wrote in message . .. This request isn't exactly for an airplane but it's for a glider winch. I need to find a source for small amounts of 6.5" OD 1" wall steel tube. I don't care too much about the alloy as long as it's reasonably strong and both machinable and weldable. Try Floyd Equipment 2208 Pacific Highway E. Fife, WA 253.922.0200 That's where I get the tube for my cannon barrels. Rich S. |
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Source of large diameter thick wall tube
Don't be rediculous, it's to hold the football for field goal attempts.
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Source of large diameter thick wall tube
You might want to try Alan Steel in Redwood City, CA They have a lot of odd
sizes DP "Bill Daniels" bildan@comcast-dot-net wrote in message . .. This request isn't exactly for an airplane but it's for a glider winch. I need to find a source for small amounts of 6.5" OD 1" wall steel tube. I don't care too much about the alloy as long as it's reasonably strong and both machinable and weldable. Thanks in advance. Bill Daniels |
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Source of large diameter thick wall tube
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 13:49:46 -0700, "Bill Daniels"
bildan@comcast-dot-net wrote: This request isn't exactly for an airplane but it's for a glider winch. I need to find a source for small amounts of 6.5" OD 1" wall steel tube. I don't care too much about the alloy as long as it's reasonably strong and both machinable and weldable. Thanks in advance. Bill Daniels Bill, when I worked in heavy industry, our shop would regularly order "structural tubing" from our steel supplier. It might have taken a week or 2, but we never had any problem getting just about any size we wanted. That said, have you given any thought to 6" XXS pipe which will be 6.625 OD with 0.864 wall? I don't know if your dimensions were generic or specific (as in fitting bearings). IF the latter, that pipe, with OD machined to the bearings at the ends, may work; I'm not a good enough engineer to do the calculations. Schedule 160 may be easier to find; wall is 0.718. George |
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