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[BradBabel]

wow!!! I did a few somes and what not to est how much it will cost to get these boxes built. A bit of a shock. I knew it would cost some but not uite this much.

first up the galvinised 30mm square tubing.
We require a total of 114.6m of the stuff to build all 3 boxes. As the tubing comes in 6.5m lengths that 17.6 lengths, rounding up to 18 and adding 1 length atleast to make sure we don't just have offcuts to make the last length, makes 19. At about $40/length that comes to $760.

Then the ply
the small needs 1 x 1m x 1m.
4 x 2.3m x 1.8m

the medium
1 x 1.65m x 1.65m
3 x 1.4m x 1.65m
1 x 1m x 1.65.
1 x 0.64m x 1.65m
2 x 1.4m x 0.5m

the large
1 x 2.3m x 2.3m
4 x 2.3m x 1.8

Thats a bit of ply!! I'm ring up tomorrow to fing out what sizes the sheets of ply come in and how much it will come to for all that we need and get back to you.

I've probably got enough paint to do the job there, all we will need is for some one to weld the frames which I may know some one for if no one else can do it, and the tech screws to fix the ply down.

I know Trick said he would help out but I don't expect him to cover this all. I am going to try get extra $$$ from some other sorces. So long till next time

[admin]

christ..... that's a helluva lot for the tubing..... Maybe we should have a brainstorming session sometime to try and cut down on the amount used, without giving up strength, and decreasing cost in any other way. I'm sure we've gotta be able to cut that down heaps with a bit of mental work!