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Roll Cage Redesign/Rebuild.......asking for input
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<blockquote data-quote="fl-krawler" data-source="post: 545586" data-attributes="member: 884"><p>Tube is for fabbing, pipe is for shitting... That said, pipe is fine if that is all you have as an option. Design and weld quality play a bigger factor in safety IMO... .250" wall is to thick for a cage. 1.75" x .120 wall is plenty sufficient. Only reason to go thicker is if you are looking for dent resistance of the tube, or you have a structurally unsound/minimal tube approach to the cage, where you are asking more of the tube that is there (i.e. minimal triangulation, minimal tubes etc). The chassis I build use either 1.75" or 2" tube, with .120 wall for anything that will get hit by a rock, .095" or .065" wall for tubes that will only see compression and tension loads</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fl-krawler, post: 545586, member: 884"] Tube is for fabbing, pipe is for shitting... That said, pipe is fine if that is all you have as an option. Design and weld quality play a bigger factor in safety IMO... .250" wall is to thick for a cage. 1.75" x .120 wall is plenty sufficient. Only reason to go thicker is if you are looking for dent resistance of the tube, or you have a structurally unsound/minimal tube approach to the cage, where you are asking more of the tube that is there (i.e. minimal triangulation, minimal tubes etc). The chassis I build use either 1.75" or 2" tube, with .120 wall for anything that will get hit by a rock, .095" or .065" wall for tubes that will only see compression and tension loads [/QUOTE]
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