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Re: pic: Another Cheap Wood Frame Idea

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Originally Posted by squirrel View Post
The cantilevered axle design has some advantages and some disadvantages. One advantage is that it's pretty easy to work on it, another is that the holes don't have to be aligned, another is that it saves the weight of the outer piece of wood, and since there's a bumper there anyways that piece of wood is kind of redundant. On the downside, it takes a bigger axle with a strong attachment to equal the strength of a non-cantilevered design.

of the two, which do you think is the easiest to build and most durable?

and were do you guys get pultruded fiberglass channel
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