Geez, I ask where I can buy some tubing and everybody acts like I am trying to make my toyota fly!
I believe he came up short jumping a concrete irrigation ditch around 80mph and broke his back, I dont think anything would have held up to that.
Actually, if I tried to lose 20 pounds that way, I would probably die. You can already see my ribs:flipoff:
Were the tubes heat treated?
Here is why I would like to try the 4130:
DOM
55,000 PSI yield strength (point where the tube is permanently bent)
4130 (Normalized)
63,000 PSI yield strength
4130 (Water Quenched, Tempered)
100,000 PSI yield strength
You can see there is a small difference between regular DOM and 4130, but the treated 4130 is nearly 2x the strength of DOM. I know that it is not the easiest way to save weight and not the fastest /cheapest way to slam a housing together, that is not the point. The point is to put together a stronger housing, just by dropping some tube off to be heat treated.
