[TheForge] Hydraulic Press

[John Allen]

Talking with my engineer buddy for the nuclear plant. He told me before that
if you build a header for a door, if you double the width of the beam, you
increase the strength by 10%. If you double the height (in 1 piece of
course) you gain 100% more strength.

Square / Rec Tubing is hands down the strongest steel out there. The problem
with it is workability. You don't build a skyscraper out of tubing because
you can't bolt to it, can't add sections easily, it is bulky and the cost is
higher to make then I beams. Now pertaining that to your frame, you would
need to have 6x6 x1/2" walls, but now they are 6" wide, you can use a beam
with similar strength and 8" tall and 5" wide. The best and worst thing with
commercially made stuff is that they already figure out what materials best
to use. Why.... because if they made things with what they want to make them
out of, then the competitors will use what sells by price versus what is
right.

If you buy an apple from your local farmer for  50 cents and the grocery
store for 48 cents, everything is the same since they are both big, juicy,
and red right? Well that one from the store could be from South America and
was picked early to ripen on the truck up here, and sprayed with chemicals
that the US has banned. Well, that just says never take any shortcuts in
especially things that could go wrong.

-- 
John Allen
Country Metals, LLC
(856) 542-4316 (cell)
(856) 504-0087 (fax)