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Location: Castle Hill NSW
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Welding together a wake tower
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Fri, 11 March 2005 05:24
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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](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](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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chrishulbert | Fri, 11 March 2005 05:24 |
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YelloRolla | Fri, 11 March 2005 05:45 |
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chrishulbert | Fri, 11 March 2005 05:54 |
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YelloRolla | Fri, 11 March 2005 05:57 |
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Sam_Q | Fri, 11 March 2005 06:11 |
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YelloRolla | Fri, 11 March 2005 06:13 |
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Sam_Q | Fri, 11 March 2005 06:17 |
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YelloRolla | Fri, 11 March 2005 06:18 |
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