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 Post subject: Metal supply and Exhaust Shop ?'s
PostPosted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:20 pm 
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Does anyone know where to buy metal for fabrication near Ramstein? I want to fabricate my own sub-frame connectors. $170 is too much for a couple pieces of metal.

Is there a good exhaust shop around that can fab some exhaust tubes? I can weld everything but I need the tubing and a tube bender. I think a mandrel bender would be out of the question around this area...

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 Post subject: Re: Metal supply and Exhaust Shop ?'s
PostPosted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 6:54 pm 
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Exhaust tubes aren't strong enough to use as SFC's. By the time you're done buying pipes and paying someone to bend them over here, you're probably close to the cost of buying a set.

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+1! Go with a decent set that you can rely on ... you're not only paying for the material, but also for them being developed and fabricated ...

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 Post subject: Re: Metal supply and Exhaust Shop ?'s
PostPosted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:21 pm 
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The pieces for the exhaust have to be custom made. There's an exhaust shop on Ramstein by the vehicle inspection pit, but I will never go there!!

I need mild steel for the SFC's not exhaust tubing... I just need to know where to get it so I can fabricate. Thanks,

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I am another advocate of production SFC's for an entirely different reason. I had a pretty bad accident on the autobahn and feel that the SFC's (BMR) and the STB (BMR) were primary factors for me walking away fairly unharmed.

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 Post subject: Re: Metal supply and Exhaust Shop ?'s
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+2 ;) Steel isn't really cheap anymore (25mm tubing, 2.5mm thick, CroMo-Stuff..up to $19 per meter), if you even can find a distributor that sells you such little purchase quantities of the good stuff AND not only sells to companies , finding a shop (locally) that can bend such strong tubes isn't easy if not impossible, welding it out-and-out needs some good experience... and if you want to get it really strong you need to heat tread it, which you probably can't. In the end spending $180 and have them at your door some days later is really easier and cheaper, IMO. We're just in the progress of building a tube framed FSAE race car at university... so, we just did all that, just because we can't simply buy that frame readilly made.

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