Yankee Whiskey AKA: USS Get Drunk and Wakeboard AKA: King Ding A Ling of Lake Bryan

[Doug Krebs]

why not build it out of some thinwall chromoly? st john can tig it up for you.

I was just thinking aluminum for the sake of rust.

St. John can still tig it up

[agjohn02]

does Al tube bend easily... as in not crimp or rupture? i dunno. id do it out of steel and powdercoat just to keep from having to experiment with bending Al.

[Doug Krebs]

does Al tube bend easily... as in not crimp or rupture? i dunno. id do it out of steel and powdercoat just to keep from having to experiment with bending Al.

Quiet! We need a guinea pig.

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[agjohn02]

good point! jimmy, you havent a hair on your nuts if you dont build your own tower out of aluminum.

[uglyota]

Looks badass Jimmy, if you're worried about the neon looking canadian just fly the Stars and Bars! Problem solved!

[Graystroke]

http://www.hardwoods-inc.com/Products/concrete.cfm
is this what you used? or something similar...everybody has there own name..I think there is a bunch that comes out of Brazil. This stuff is from China.
there are two different types..paper faced and the resin faced...resin one being better.
$40 a sheet is good. I think most places it is around $80.

[eight]

Plenty of towers are built of carbon steel and painted. Towers are very expensive for all they are. I wonder what 304SS tube costs...

[Fredo]

Most of the towers for boats that look good have long radius bends. It's hard to make a tower look good with a normal bender.

[DRAGOONRANCH]

if you did it yourself though, you could peemp it out though.

[BMFScout]

http://bierbower.net/diytower/home.htm some good links on making one yourself.

[BMFScout]

http://www.wakeworld.com/MB/Discus/m...tml?1118980059

this one isn't too bad, no long radius bends on it.

[JeepPhisherman]

That first one sure is slick though.

[DRAGOONRANCH]

You need to get copperhead fab (or anybody w/ a plasma/waterjet table) to cut some ATM and Tamor salute gussets out for ya.

[BMFScout]

That first one sure is slick though.

I like it, but I want it to have 4 connection points with the boat and be able to fold down so I can store it in my garage.

[Fredo]

http://www.wakeworld.com/MB/Discus/m...tml?1118980059

this one isn't too bad, no long radius bends on it.

That one looks pretty good until they actually mount it to the boat. Then it looks like ****.