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Material weights question
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Sun Mar 18, 2007 6:25 pmby toolferone
Hello, this is my first post after introducing myself. I have been reading nad searching for the last several days and have not found the answer to this question.
I want to try and figure out weights before I start building and I have not found any weights listed for wood or metal. I sell baltic birch plywood at work so I weighed it and came up with the numbers below.
1/8” .43lb per sq ft
¼” .84lb per sq ft
½” 1.76lb per sq ft
¾” 2.44lb per sq ft
Does anybody have the weights for the different steel used for the trailers, ie: angle, square, or rectangle in different thickness? If this is listed somewhere already please post the link for me. ( I did try to find it)
TIA
Posted:
Sun Mar 18, 2007 6:29 pmby Arne
did a search on 'angle iron weight per ft'.. with this, you can figure out weight per cubic inch and extrapolate...
http://www.wasatchsteel.com/unequal_angle.htm
ply is usually 25# per 4x8x1/4"
WEIGHT OF STEEL
Posted:
Sun Mar 18, 2007 6:35 pmby RCHAPMAN
To calculate the weight of mild carbon steel .....length x width x thickness x .2833.
Posted:
Sun Mar 18, 2007 6:39 pmby GeneH
These folks have all the data you are looking for.
http://jimssupply.com/
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Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:55 pmby toolferone
Great!, Thank you for the fast responses. I had only looked on the forum, dumb me did not even think about other web sites. I am searching things on the net all the time, boy do I feel stupid. Great first impression I made
Posted:
Sun Mar 18, 2007 9:55 pmby Arne
In two weeks, I start the frame on no. 2... just to make you feel better, I'll be asking some dumb questions.. perhaps lots of them../g/
Posted:
Sun Mar 18, 2007 9:57 pmby Keith B
Habor Freight sells a Pocket Ref for like $11 (black)... it'll have everything you're asking for and then some.. I have two.. on in the shop and one in the car for when I'm "shopping"... LOVE IT.
Posted:
Sun Mar 18, 2007 10:19 pmby madjack
Keith B wrote:Habor Freight sells a Pocket Ref for like $11 (black)... it'll have everything you're asking for and then some.. I have two.. on in the shop and one in the car for when I'm "shopping"... LOVE IT.
...gotta couple pocket refs as well....good for all sorts of things.........................
Metal weights in Design Library then open Tongue Strength
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Mon Mar 19, 2007 1:59 amby Esteban
The weight of many shapes of steel are available up above in the Design Library, open it then click on Tongue Strength. It's good to print it out as a reference for frame building.
Steve B.
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Mon Mar 19, 2007 2:09 amby reiltear
Tom, don't feel bad!(Instead, feel good)
The only people who don't make mistakes are the ones that don't do anything(i'm not the one who came up with this idea)
I really like everybody on this forum and it's rare in this commercialised world to meet anyone as friendly and helpful as this bunch.