paradisePWoffrd
Recovering Project Junkie
- Joined
- Nov 5, 2005
- Location
- Newton, NC
Count the number of joints where a piece of tubing transfers an axial load to another piece of tubing in bending, it's a fun game. I lost count, there's so many of them. And sections of cage that can't actually transfer any load, just a bunch of dead areas (see: corners). You could take a sawzall and do some weight reduction without changing the strength a single bit.
I'll say it again (not the first time): Knowing how to use a tube bender and a welder doesn't make you able to design a cage, period. The basics are so completely simple and common sense, it just blows my mind.
Lets say hypothetically the cage withstood a rollover.... the enitre thing would likely rip loose of the sheetmetal floorpan he welded it to. Of course, that is assuming the tubing is something more than exhaust pipe. My guess is poop pipe.