Was wanting to make one of these.
You can buy them but I'm not about to spend the kind of money they want for one. Sounds like the conduit idea isn't going to work out, back to the drawing board I reckon...
You come down and do the math, horn will lay it out and I will attempt to bend.
It is near impossible to stay on track and keep something like that straight. Might be fun to try though. Who is buying the beer???
Was wanting to make one of these
You can buy them but I'm not about to spend the kind of money they want for one. Sounds like the conduit idea isn't going to work out, back to the drawing board I reckon...
I'm not giving up, just gotta find a different option. I thought conduit would be cheap and relatively lightweight. Chances are it'll be assembled and disassembled once a year. We really need it more to move across an open field than we do to hunt out of and after seeing someone using one on a show it appeared light enough to fill that role nicely. If we could get it where we need to go and hunt out of it as well, that would just be icing on the cake. It'll have to look as much like a round bale as possible to avoid spooking the big boys, they're pretty smart and even more weary.
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Any reason you couldn't just do it as hex? Four forty-five degree bends and some skinning/straight framing and you'd be done. Or is the arc/circle for the added internal volume? Or to make it look like a haybale or something?
If I could do math, I'd be a millionaire.
Can you make an octagon out of PVC pipe and eight 45deg elbows?
If the octagon isn't round enough, you could "round it off" with 1/8" or so round bar on top of the straight sections of PVC...or you could use sixteen 22.5deg elbows for a more round shape, but those suckers are expensive compared to a standard 45deg