Quote Originally Posted by stovens View Post
You know that's not a bad idea we have two steel places locally, and cutting the templates would be pretty straight foward, for a steel place. It just seemed to me when we purchased some scrap for our house addition, that it cost a fair amount of cash for some small scraps. But I just called a scrap yard and they sell it for about 90 cents a pound! I figure your right I could save a bundle. The company that makes the precuts also makes tubulat x frames for my setup, but again its 400 bucks for the x-frame and 100 to ship.so maybe I'll get creative!
Finished the boxing plates for the Plymouth, Steve. Cost of the materials I mentioned in the earlier post was $37.00. I do the same as Evolvo on the templates, for cutting it depends on the piece and the size. Sometimes I use the plasma cutter, sometimes the Sawzall, and sometimes the jig saw. For straight pieces I use a cheapy table saw with a half used up cut off wheel from the chop saw. It seems with the chop saw when the cut off wheel doesn't have enough material left on it to cut through a 2" or 3" piece of steel tubing, there's about 9" to 10" of it left....With an adapter for the center, just the right size for my table saw!!! Nice straight cuts, Just gotta be careful with it....