bryan_machine
Diamond
- Joined
- Jun 16, 2006
- Location
- Near Seattle
I'm making a new cradle for a small boat lift. The brackets for the old cradle are either a channel, or a rectangular tube with one side cut off.
All of the material is aluminum.
What's unusual is that the old parts are 2.5" wide by 6" tall by 1/4" thick giving a sliding fit to standard 2" wide rectangular tube.
None of my local suppliers has any 2.5" wide by 1/4" thick material, either channel or rect tube, listed.
I am gearing up to cut 3" x 6" x 1/4" tube and weld it back together, but wondered if anybody here knows where to get 2.5" x ... tube or channel.
(I couldn't think a maker of boat lifts would have a custom extrusion made, but ....)
All of the material is aluminum.
What's unusual is that the old parts are 2.5" wide by 6" tall by 1/4" thick giving a sliding fit to standard 2" wide rectangular tube.
None of my local suppliers has any 2.5" wide by 1/4" thick material, either channel or rect tube, listed.
I am gearing up to cut 3" x 6" x 1/4" tube and weld it back together, but wondered if anybody here knows where to get 2.5" x ... tube or channel.
(I couldn't think a maker of boat lifts would have a custom extrusion made, but ....)