Thanks, it's nice to be here!

I need to figure out how much I can get on my roof bars. All the sheet stuff and the gas pipe can wait.

Now, they each have 75Kg max stamped on them so I just need to figure out if that's per roof bar or total.

Andrew

If you are buying it from Parkers they might not let you take it away. See an earlier post in this thread.

I got the gas pipe for the rear roll bar supports.

Some suppliers will cut it into 3m lengths for you.

If you log in to the Parkers site, they give you the weights of the material you are looking at, usually in kg per metre or kg per square metre.

Failing that, there are calculators for metal weights available on the net

Sean

Sean

I can now see the weights on the Parkers PDF quote that they email which is good; I hadn't noticed it in the basket but it seems their site goes down every night about this time for some reason so will check later - thanks.

I'll be getting it delivered to a UK address and then hopefully bringing it back home to France so not collecting directly from them. It's just 3-4 time the price over here.

Andrew

Fair enough. It doesn't all need to go on the roof rack though.

Some of it can be cut into smaller pieces (roughly to size) and placed inside a car, unless it's full of people.

Alternatively, HandyAndy is doing precut packs now, they would easily fit into a car (across the back seats) http://www.haynes.co.uk/forums/showp...2&postcount=39

Bit more expensive, but doing all of those cuts is time consuming

Sean

Thanks Sean, :)

once a chassis kit is cut to the required lengths it does make it alot easier to transport compared to the 6m lengths it starts out as,
As Sean has said the cost of my flat pack chassis kits cost a little more than just buying the long lengths of steel but this is due to the time it takes to cut.

whichever route you take may i wish you a warm welcome to the forum & enjoy your Roadster build.

cheers
andy

Generally 75Kg is about the maximum for any load on the roof, so I would assume that it means a total of 75Kg.

I've PM'd Andy so thanks for that pointer. Looks promising.

Funny, I recall the roof of my car taking two fully grown men without any problems when I was younger!

Thanks for the replies.

Andrew

PM replied to Andrew,

thanks.

andy
ps... the name Andy/Andrew seems popular amongst Roadster builders :D