Material weights question

[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

[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"

[RCHAPMAN]

To calculate the weight of mild carbon steel .....length x width x thickness x .2833.

[GeneH]

These folks have all the data you are looking for.


http://jimssupply.com/

[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

[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/

[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.

[madjack]

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.........................

[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.

[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.