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chrishulbert
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icon10.gif  Welding together a wake tower Fri, 11 March 2005 05:24 Go to previous message
Hi all, i want to weld together a wakeboard tower, kinda like this one:

http://www.fluidcore.com.au/images/1photos/600x450 /wishbone.jpg

Just wanted to start a bit of a discussion going about it.
Say, if i was going to use 5cm diameter aluminium tubing, get it bent to shape, how hard would it be to weld caps onto the ends, and screw in some rod-end bearings like these into the caps:

http://img218.exs.cx/img218/2554/8405kc1l0jy.th.gif

These bearings would connect onto round flanges which would be on the deck of the boat, which would look like this (circled in red):

http://img230.exs.cx/img230/7130/flanges7ti.th.jpg


Any suggestions/ideas ? Would the welding be difficult, or should i use a different bearing? My main difficulty is i can't imagine how i'd make the flange/hat things.

[Updated on: Fri, 11 March 2005 05:51]

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Read Message   Welding together a wake tower  chrishulbertFri, 11 March 2005 05:24
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