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Offline Travis Hightower

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Building a homemade rail!
« on: May 24, 2009, 04:03:55 AM »
So i'm building a home made grind rail for backyard riding out of pvc pipe, bolts, and rebar. i'll post pics
next time i get around to it, but its going to be a 3ft tall 8ft long rainbow rail made out of 3 1/2" pvc pipes
with 1/2" spacing inbetween.

what do you guys think? any problems you forsee in this? we weight tested it and it held up fine,
so hopefully this is a go!

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Re: Building a homemade rail!
« Reply #1 on: May 27, 2009, 09:11:07 AM »
Dang man i cant wait to see some pics and vids a this one. 

Rebar and pvc?  rebar seems a lil rough to grind and pvc a little too flexible (its not that high tho i guess) but i trust you hopefully it works out.

Good luck!!

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Re: Building a homemade rail!
« Reply #2 on: May 27, 2009, 06:34:52 PM »
i thought it would be too flexible too, but when we put in mock up bracing it hardly bent at all. maybe 1/4 of an inch.
we put max tension on it with the maximum bend, and we're going to anchor it with rebar covered in pvc (pvc for less injuries).  so far the only bad thing about it is, its white, and its ugly. ahahha. ill post pics as soon as it starts taking
shape eh?

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Re: Building a homemade rail!
« Reply #3 on: May 27, 2009, 09:55:01 PM »
Sounds good ;)

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Re: Building a homemade rail!
« Reply #4 on: May 29, 2009, 06:07:25 PM »
Sounds cool.  I would like to see a pic of it.

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Re: Building a homemade rail!
« Reply #5 on: June 24, 2009, 05:09:50 PM »
sure man, as soon as im finished settling in and get this thing built ill definitely post pics.

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Re: Building a homemade rail!
« Reply #6 on: October 02, 2009, 04:36:39 PM »
How did it go Travz?

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