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Old 29th November 2015, 07:32 PM
SteveH SteveH is offline
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Default cuting sw1,2,3

right today while ive been in the garage ive been trying to get the cuts right on sw1 and sw3
i cut sw2 that was easy enough but i dont get how you cut the other two peices and get them to fit ok
it could just be me having a proper blond moment
but i never did understand compund angles and such like
also im after some 36 x 16 oval tube for my headlight brackets,i tried my local steel stockholders and they dont have anything like it

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Old 29th November 2015, 08:08 PM
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oval tube is used widely in furniture making, my local B&Q had it cost about £8 a meter
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Old 30th November 2015, 09:35 AM
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Got mine off ebay
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Old 30th November 2015, 01:18 PM
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I used a very handy clothes rail which was being thrown out at work 👍
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Old 30th November 2015, 02:31 PM
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just gently squash a bit of round tube in a vice until it is oval
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Old 1st December 2015, 11:19 AM
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The material I got from ebay had a good wall thickness so I managed to mill through one edge, squeeze it and weld it back to create like a wing profile, i know no-one will see it but it one of the subtle little things i have done to try to make it different.

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