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Our Cage Build (pic heavy)
Larry Herman Offline
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05-07-2010, 03:03 PM (This post was last modified: 05-07-2010, 03:05 PM by Larry Herman.)
Hopefully you haven't fabricated those door bars yet, because they are completely worthless.  IMHO they are both heavier and weaker than a simple X brace.  They are fundamentally an unsupported trapizoid, and because of the double bends create an unstable complex of tubes that can easily be concaved on impact.

I have also seen plenty of cages that had "Nascar Bars" that were also worthless because they too had no strength in tension or compression.  Instead, you should consider making a gusseted X brace similar to what a Porsche 996/997 cup car has.  Straight tubes are stronger, and the pyrimidal shape offers significant strength in compression.  Of course YMMV.
Larry Herman
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