any fabricators up for a challenge?
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any fabricators up for a challenge?
i need a light bar and roof rack. i also do not have the luxury of a welder or any kind of bender. SO! the challange is help me fighure out a 'bolt together/ bolt on'' roof rack and light bar. is there anyway pvc would be strong enough? hollow would be cool for the light bar as to run wires through it.
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i saw a really nice one made out of conduit but i thought he said it had been welded? i dont even know what conduit is lol google time
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There are connectors you can use that don't require welding.
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The grey-ish tube that people run wires through. Usually you see it leading to an outlet box when your in a room with cinder block walls.
There are connectors you can use that don't require welding.
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awesome. thanks buddy. i just drew up my roof rack plan and priced it but i think just to get my feet wet im gonna start out with a light bar. and thats gonna be the hard part cause im gonna have to fab up a way to connect it to the gutters.
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you wouldnt happen to have a write up would you? cause i wanna leave my stock bars available to mount the rack too
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hose clamps? I hope they were big! what my bud did is slide the 2 stock racks off the slider, build them into the rack, then slide the whole thing into the sliders again.... then he rolled it into a tree when he was ****-faced... But it was cool while he had it and removable. Wasn't super duper strong but worked for carrying a spare or a bunch skis/snowboards in the winter.
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Here I found this picture similar to what I'm talking about (sorry can post it cuzz I'm on my iPod)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2576/...c5fe9abf63.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2576/...c5fe9abf63.jpg
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A cheap way to do the light bar is to go to the junk yard and find a stock rack that is the same as what you have on there now and drill holes in it to bolt your lights on and they are hollow so you can run your wires through it. Thats how I did mine and it has worked out great. Its not the best picture but you can kinda see it. (the ladder is covering one of the lights)
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