[TheForge] standard materials on hand

Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer artgawk at thegrid.net
Sat Jun 13 16:19:54 EDT 2009


The strength to weight ratio of those frames is quite good...hard on a 
hacksaw though.

Mark A. Pesetsky wrote:
> Often times they throw bed frames away where I work. These are the industrial heavy stock frames. Takes a bit of angle grinding to get the rivets off, but w/the price of steel these days...No brainer. Between those frames and road side finds, I must have at least 10 frames. ANYTHING steel being thrown away (generally speaking) I will grab...And it's fun too, especially when you have a full sized Dodge 1500.
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> Don't neglect to build up a little junk yard! I like drive shaft tubing,
> bed frames, steering rods, truck axles, and all sizes of springs.
> For a beginning...grin...pf
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> terry l. ridder wrote:
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