Originally posted by tsSVT: What are the dimensions of the steel tubing?what kind or quality steel is it?
we will attempt to aquire ASTM A500 grade B cold-formed structural tubing, 1x2x1/8.
Since I'm not an engineer, how prone is this grade of steel to rusting? And since you say you'd have to leave spots exposed for welding, how did you do yours since it appears to be completely painted? It looks like the welding just burnt the paint off.....if that's right, why not repaint over the welds on the car?
youre right. if you look at the top pic youll see i left two spots for welding and then the shop just welded wherever i guess it was ok since the tips were completely raw but i do normally that you should not have paint (or anything else) where you plan to weld. and i did re-paint over the welds afterwards.
im no engineer either, but the guy who will be doing these is. he opened his book of steels (lol) and chose the metal right out of there. as far as its durability is to rusting, ill ask him for you snow-belters
Originally posted by Tourgasm:
Sometimes you can mess up a word so bad that spell check doens't know what the hell you're talking about.
i guess it was ok since the tips were completely raw but i do normally that you should not have paint (or anything else) where you plan to weld. and i did re-paint over the welds afterwards. 
