Aluminium Extrusion / Profiles Buy?

Stigura

Black, far preferable . 30 x 30mm x 2,000mm.

Is that clear, please, lads? I've only just discovered it exists. Like an X. Slots in it.

I need three such lengths (6', in my money) I need them in Leitrim. I need them Yesterday.

Tried Flomax. Messaged them? No response. Rang them. Spoke to a lovely guy, who gave me an email to clarify on. Last I heard from him. Emailed Sales. Now, I'm here 🙄

I Want this gear, guys. Where might I get it, please?

Lumen

Not in Leitrim, not yesterday, and not black, but…

https://ie.rs-online.com/web/c/engineering-materials-industrial-hardware/structural-systems/tubing-and-profile-struts/?selectedNavigation=attributes.Length=2000mm%5Eattributes.Strut_Profile=30%20x%2030%20mm

Careful with "in stock" status from RS though, it doesn't mean "in the country".

Stigura

🙏 *Now* it seems the real struggle can begin! Look at all those prices and little differences in detail!

Okay. Anyone here know their extrusions, please? I want one either side of a coffin. Underneath. Yeah?

I then want to use the ends to Lift said coffin, much as one would a wheel barrow. Simple?

Obviously, I'd rather Not spend the guts of 200, only to have the things Snap on me!!!

Anyone, please? Guy and I sort of agreed, yesterday, that man sense says it Should be fine. But, we Were talking Bosch.

Opinions, please? (Heat's off me, for a few more days now. But, I Need this gear)

Thanks 🙂

Lumen

Is this the coffin you started in 2019?

I don't think 3030 will do it. Maybe 4020 will.

Stigura

🥺 And, Stigura realised then; There was to be NO let up in the malstrom of carp, seemingly intent on doing his head in.

Lu; I have no idea When this albatross hatched. I even gave up keeping a friendly score of the costs, some €100's ago. It's Combat, now 😬

I hooked a spring balance under the heavy and other ends. Came away thinking 'Over 50, all told. Well under the cwt.'

Me and my man agreed: Bro Science reckons I'm good to go. Bulk of the weight is at the one end. That end has wheels.

See? More of a wheel barrow effort. All weight to be taken over All the ali. I just don't want it to Still snap, at the three foot mark.

But, sweet jesus! This bit alone is looking like 100's more?!

I wonder if there's an alternative I'm missing?

Ok. Different approach entirely:

I have a six by two cage. I need to Fix it, somehow, to the face of a box. K?

BUT; I must do it in such a way that ~ here it comes! ~ It Doesn't tear clean off as I Lift the far end, like wheel barrow.

See where I'm coming from, now?

🙏

Lumen

Yeah, I had a mad plan to support a mezzanine floor out of alu profile. In the end went with timber because the saving of 2cm or whatever of depth wasn't worth the astronomical costs and fabrication effort.

Are you really making a coffin wheelbarrow?

Stigura

That's IT!!! 🤬

Sorry! Not You, mate! 😄 Bloody phone! I write a decent response. Do some leg work. Ask the questions. Pause, to gather my thoughts..… GONE!!!

SBT? I owe ye one! I'll go with wood!

Lumen

Oh, I just remembered that Unistrut is the answer to your question, not aluminium extrusions.

Never used it myself though.

Stigura

Oh. 'Thanks', mate 😬 Bloody thing's sat outside, just waiting for the handles.

Need those, before I cripple myself! 😁

Nah, went with 2x2, in the end. Did some crafty bits I dreamt up; Cracking job! 👍

Could, almost, of put them in there today. 'Things' … 🙄

Tis a thing of beauty though! Mate was impressed with 'Stigura's Patent Lid Lock'! My own invention. Specifically for this job 😁

" Happy now ". Except my life's now disintergrating, due to that issue, glossed over, in that article.