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Re: Welding together a wake tower

Fri, 11 March 2005 12:47

check out these links... these guys seem to do a mounting arrangement similar to the one you're planning...

http://www.wakeair.com/index/menu.asp

{url}http://www.wakeair.com/index/meas_inst2.htm[/url]

they seem to taper the tube at the end... just make sure you've got a decent length of thread to screw the heim joint into.

might be unrealistic, but it would be sweet if you could find some of the sort of mounting hardware a lot of the tower builders use, as in the link in your first post, and like this;

http://www.wakeside.com/extras/files/16_5.jpg

check out the gallery on this page for some other nice pics;

http://www.wakeside.com/page/W/PROD/boss_wakeboard _towers/boss_knight_wakeboard_towers

and here for a bunch of different tower designs;

http://www.wakeside.com/miva/merchant.mvc?Screen=C TGY&Category_Code=wakeboard_towers

are you planning on the front posts converging on the centre, like the tower in your first post? for ease of construction, i reckon a tower using 2 hoops would be the go, like this;