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Bump, I'd like to see close ups. I need to make a set up.What's the weight and length on the ramps?
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Bump, I'd like to see close ups. I need to make a set up.What's the weight and length on the ramps?
Man some of you fellas personalities need some serious re-evaluation it seems. While i dont think those ramps are the sturdiest looking, im not going to sit in my internet throne and talk down to him. Definately not going to wish ill on him by stating his jeep would look great on its side.
Im assuming you must be a mechanical engineer to know for a fact that they will fail? Do you know the wall thickness of the metal? Do you know the center point tie in methods? He stated there is a center support.... Perhaps he has already removed it or is that just impossible?
It just baffles me that so many here on this site like to bash be negative, belittle, and just make fellow MV enthusiasts feeling like ****....
Luckily there are some good guys on here still who want to help and encourage others. It just shows the sad state of this once great nation as it gets taken over by know it alls that know so much no one will ever understand there level of intelligence .
I don't see a center support. He said they don't look safe because they don't look safe. I'd wager on at least one side collapsing in the middle, if you use them as shown. That Jeep would look great laying on it's side.
im not an engineer. Im a fabricator, so i have common sense. Im kidding of course (kind of) some engineers are one step away from drooling on themselves.I've been doing engineering (mechanical and electrical) since 74 and on 95% of my threads I seek to help people or provide the OP with some useful information. That wasn't an attack on him personally like you seem to be doing.
How long have YOU been an engineer? You think because someone uses CADD that it makes a structure that won't fail? Do you know the tensile strength of that tube? Do you know the cross sectional area?
If I get him to put more substantial support under the middle, who will have provided more useful information? Sorry to offend you or the OP...he did ask why I would say what I said.
im not an engineer. Im a fabricator, so i have common sense. Im kidding of course (kind of) some engineers are one step away from drooling on themselves.
It was not really an attack or jab at you. I have been cruising threads here lately and i see so much negativity and dressing down to other members i just wanted to comment. I dont get offended and i cant speak for the OP.
To the OP i "ass"ume the guys by asking about a center support refer to a leg or folding gear system. I would HIGHLY recomend doing a removable or folding leg support in the center of the ramps. Metal can bend quite a bit but once it kinks or fatigues thays all she wrote man. It wouldnt need anything fancy perhaps a removable and adjustable legs that pin in place or hinge.
Any way lets get back to the 5 ton mods and PM's proceedures.
Bull. I offered up a size and you have not confirmed it. Tubing is not sold by weight per foot and that tube is NOT 16# per foot.16#/ft. Cant be that hard with engineering experience to figure out the thickness.
It didn't happen without pictures...... And how scarred up is you left arm from hot metal and burning paint? I have the scars...most of which heal.
Apparently you can't answer with facts, like proving the tubing size is proper with beam strength, you have to attack my experience.It didn't happen without pictures...
Seems like someone had their feelings as well as their arm hurt?
Awesome looking ramps, deserve there own thread!The ramps are 10 feet long and the weight is about 160 lbs each
Give an actual dimension. They don't make a 16# 2x2 tube. What is that tubes size and thickness...in measured dimension?The ramps are 16#/ft. More math needed!
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