Thread: 80/20 ?!?!?!
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Re: 80/20 ?!?!?!

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Originally Posted by tseres View Post
excuse my ignorance, but what exactly is the 80/20 stuff?
Sometimes people call it '80% of what you want for 20% of the effort'.

It's a system of extruded aluminum and fasteners that allow for quick and easy modifications. Attaching pieces of it together requires, typically, no more then hand tools.

The down sides are typical to any sort of modular building kit; Cost and weight. It's not cheap, and the fasteners aren't either. Because of the shape of the extrusion required to make the fasteners easy to use it's heavy for it's size.

It's a pretty high price to pay for the ease it offers. But a lot of rookie teams make use of it because you can toss a frame together with nothing more then a hacksaw and a wrench. If you don't have much in the way of tooling, or experience with frame building, it can be a godsend. Otherwise more traditional extrusions and fasteners offer much more.