Liquid_force
Petty Officer 1st Class
- Joined
- May 7, 2003
- Messages
- 318
My brother built the original carbon steel version with the help of a friend with a few tools and a welder. It lasted 4 seasons, and was a good learning experience, but the fatigue eventually took its toll on the low quality bends, and weak tubing.
The recently installed stainless steel version has a few minor tweaks, but is basically the same tower. I designed it using the angles from the old tower. My uncle, who is a professional stainless welder did the dirty work at the cost of a couple cases of beer
The finished product
Here is a close up of our mounting brackets. We didn't modify the brackets at all between the two towers.
This is the reinforcement we used beind each of the 4 mounting brackets.
The recently installed stainless steel version has a few minor tweaks, but is basically the same tower. I designed it using the angles from the old tower. My uncle, who is a professional stainless welder did the dirty work at the cost of a couple cases of beer
The finished product
Here is a close up of our mounting brackets. We didn't modify the brackets at all between the two towers.
This is the reinforcement we used beind each of the 4 mounting brackets.
