Welding Required

[mr henderson]

Originally Posted by Land Locked

Basically what seems to be important is that the wall be 1.6mm or thereabouts?

I'm not an expert on the various types of steel available, but I would have thought that what was important was to use a material that was no thicker (and therefore heavier) than it needed to be. If 1.6 if thick enough, then that is the stuff to use, unless it isn't available, in which case use whatever is. If that was (for instance) 3mm then the chassis would obviously be a good deal heavier, but that's better than not building the car at all, much better.

[fluxcored]

Originally Posted by mr henderson

I'm not an expert on the various types of steel available, but I would have thought that what was important was to use a material that was no thicker (and therefore heavier) than it needed to be. If 1.6 if thick enough, then that is the stuff to use, unless it isn't available, in which case use whatever is. If that was (for instance) 3mm then the chassis would obviously be a good deal heavier, but that's better than not building the car at all, much better.

Well,I'm still a few months off before starting so I have some time still to ponder the issue.

I'm not getting younger, my health is'nt getting better and my finances are'nt looking too brigth - so if I want to build this thing then I better start in the next couple of months or not at all.

[thwang]

thinking back we used dirty black rhs for some stock car chassis we built years ago and had a chat with my old foreman last night we only used rhs for building breakdown recovery wagons.plus im not thinking of planting it in a wall any time soon.
thwang