02-17-2011, 07:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Capt Sensible
Nice.
So I found myself in homedepot today, I had to get some things for work, and since I had a couple of minutes to kill, I was looking at items for your OEM rack mod. You used 1/2" all thread, why not 1/2" steel pipe? It isn't that much heavier, but it does feel more stout. Only problem I see with it, is once cut to length you'll need to "die" the ends of it.
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You pretty much hit the issue on the head. You need to thread the pipe. If I did it again I'd try to find pipe that the 1/2" all-thread fit fairly closely into then run the allthread through that. You'd have a reinforced steel bar then.
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