kiwi307 said...
I don't know if it works on your side of the ditch, but over here (and I checked today) if you buy 500kg of tube you can get what yu want, so I did in 1982.
I ordered the be and it came. then sold it off with a 5% margin. It was about 30 lengths of the 3mm. It's called "courage of convictions".
Sorry Paul, you can't take the blame or credit for the thin wall masts. Scaff tube (48 by 4.48) is not only unneccessary but uneconomic. Use it for the bottom 40% then others sizes, and they DO NOT HAVE TO FIT NEATLY.
Many masts have been mad with either a sloppy fit or insulation tape, PVC spacers or whatever and worked just fine.
yes kiwi I do recall more than once driving a hiace bus with huge bundles of 6m ally poking out diagonally front and back.
if that option was available today I would have already have taken it.
but im now confused cos in your last post you were blaming/crediting me
Col , I can recall in 87 in Lytham trying to buy some ally to replace a bent axle and the only thing available was a metric scaff tube. the company reckoned they had just changed to metric sizes to keep in with european customers
