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5" Tube
Simon - 30/12/03 at 10:10 AM

Hi Chaps,

Anyone got any suggestions where I can get a metre length of 16swg 5" diameter tube for my exhausts.

(Two half metre lengths would be fine!!)

DT list it, but won't have any till mid Jan.

Steel stockholders all seem shut.

Thanks v. much

ATB

Simon


type 907 - 30/12/03 at 10:39 AM

Hi Simon

5" is an odd size. Roll it from sheet?


Paul G


Simon - 30/12/03 at 10:54 AM

Paul,

Not that odd Demon Tweeks list it. Trying to get through to Custom Chrome, but they seem to be on holiday too!!

Only want to make some silencers.

Looks they they'll be made from perforated tube and wadding and cardboard

ATB

Simon

PS Would have a go at rolling, but don't have enough sheet, and doubt it would look any good!


suparuss - 30/12/03 at 11:33 AM

holidays suck, i was planning to start my loft conversion this week but all the bloody lumber yards are shut!! grrr

could try the scrappy, (if they are open)
or roll it from steel as suggested already.



Russ.


JoelP - 30/12/03 at 11:36 AM

id just re pack an old tube myself, pick one the right size and cut it up. i appreciate the finish isnt quite the same as custom chrome would be!


blueshift - 30/12/03 at 12:06 PM

To make the silencers, right? For a moment I was trying to figure out what you would use 5" tube for in an exhaust.. thought maybe you were going to have super bad-boy flares on the ends or something.


JoelP - 30/12/03 at 01:40 PM

i was thinking that too, thought id leave him to it! there was another thread that explained it though!


type 907 - 30/12/03 at 03:23 PM

Hi again Simon.


Quote.

" and doubt it would look any good! "

Come on Simon, this is fighting talk

PICK A WINDOW

Paul G Rescued attachment exhaust can 002s.jpg
Rescued attachment exhaust can 002s.jpg


Simon - 30/12/03 at 03:29 PM

Paul,

Two things:

First: Wow!
Second: How?

Thanks and ATB

Simon


David Jenkins - 30/12/03 at 04:01 PM

Go on, Paul, show him the picture of your exhaust manifold!



David


Peteff - 30/12/03 at 04:05 PM

Exhaust suppliers do it in mild steel but not in metre lengths. I got a 2 metre for me and a friend a few years ago. It had been ordered by someone and not picked up so they let me have it for £20.

yours, Pete.


Simon - 30/12/03 at 04:17 PM

Pete

DT do it in metre lengths (£34.76+vat), and was hoping to have it tomorrow so I could get on with silencers. Looks like I'll have to wait a while!!

David,

Yeah - seen it already. Reckon there's a good couple of days work there!!

Paul,

Be interested to know how you bent the sheet. I'm sure it can't be easy (bear in mind I only have 16swg lying around

ATB

Simon


type 907 - 30/12/03 at 04:50 PM

My manifold isn't the same anymore.

Fired up my 907 for the first time the other day and now my nice shining work of art is an uckie pooie brown.




Paul G

ps Simon you have u2u