Thread: Legal fastener for aluminum structural framing question.
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Re: Yes, I understand but....
Posted by Samuel Lindhorst.

Engineer on team #240, Mach Vee, from Jefferson High School and Visteon.

Posted on 1/23/2000 6:20 PM MST


In Reply to: Yes, I understand but.... posted by nuts4first on 1/22/2000 3:14 PM MST:



: Yes, I understand the rule about the joining plates (having unlimied use of them) and the hinges (only coming from the kit or Small Parts)

: I specificaly want to know if we are allowed to use off the shelf COUPLERS (straight, angles, and swivel) to join extruded structural aluminum (see my link above, if you don't know what this material is). My feeling is that they are similiar to the use of PVC pipe fittings.

: So again, are these legal fasteners or fittings?

Uh, I guess I'm not understanding what you are asking. Any plate or angle used to join the structure together is legal. If it's a swivel, then I wouldn't use it unless I had Eric's verdict. Really the stuff is so versatile, getting around a using swivel is no problem.

Take a look at the stuff at the link below. They have 3 or 4 ways to attach anything, and many of those ways use the angle or plate method. In my experience, they're less expensive, and ship faster than anybody. If you have Item or some other metric based set, they have metric stuff too, and someone mentioned here that it all bolts together.



Sam






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