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Re: Bumper weight

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Originally Posted by squirrel View Post
Weighed our bumpers tonight...8 lbs....I guess we need to find 10 pounds of something legal to add to them! We probably have enough Baltic Birch to add a couple pounds, and we could add some 1/2" x 1/8" aluminum angle...
You can also use steel angle, much easier to get 10lbs out of that.

1/2" x 1/8" 6061 is around .1 if the numbers in my head are correct.

you probably want something more like 3/4" x 1/8" steel, that's about .6 lbs a foot.