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How to make your own custom strut brace for $2.00 - I did, with pics...

posted by  Aye Roll on  Sat Nov 9 16:36 CST 2002
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Well I don't want to rain on your parade because I like the job, the approach and the way it looks (sweet engine compartment!)... but as a mechanic, and a maintenance electrician in a big paper mill, I can tell you that aluminum conduit has no strength! You've made a hell of a great model for reproducing it in stainless pipe though.
I've tried making custom tools and handles for things here when stuff breaks off or we need a "yankee engineering" approach to a problem. ALuminum conduit is readily available and the assembly material of choice at times... we get maybe one or two uses out of a tool made from it. It simply has no strength. It bends and stays bent much too easily.
I'd recommend copying your design in stainless 3/4 pipe and then it truly will stiffen up the car as well as look cool.
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Rob Bareiss, New London CT ::: 86 244DL, 87 244DL, 88 744GLE: 625K total






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