Team Expat - Beetleweight Adventures

[Liftoff]

Just an idea which will save you weight and the hassle of bending the steel...why dont you use a rectangular section aluminium, and bolt on two angles on it for holding the hdpe...It will be much easier and accurate imho

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[PJ-27]

You could use the wheel surrounds as armour too.

[Ellis]

Just an idea which will save you weight and the hassle of bending the steel...why dont you use a rectangular section aluminium, and bolt on two angles on it for holding the hdpe...It will be much easier and accurate imho

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That would be the alternative plan. I did it this way because I have the steel already, and I'm hoping to go as far as possible without spending a dime on this particular build. I could either do the box section trick (if I can find it big enough, which won't be very cheap) or build it out of HDPE/Nylon, which would still be lighter.

I intend to essentially mount everything off these steel plates, the base and top won't be much more than any 1mm plastic, to hold the wires in!

I do have some nice red anodised checkerplate ali which I could use, just a tad reluctant to use it because it's so pretty. :P