I have a trailex aluminium trailer which holds my Inter 20. the trailer is a few years old, its a very "standard" trailer nothing special. The tubing is rectangle with a grove down the center which I can slide in a bold, add on an attachment, and tighten the bolt and the attachment will stay in place.
im looking to raise my cradles up by the thickness of about 3 inches, and the easiest way to do this would be to add a 6 inch long piece of trailer tubing under my cradle. my trailer already has one of these 6 inch sections, so im just gona stack another.
im doing searches on google for "Trailer tubing" and im not getting anywhere. i should be able to buy this tubing by the linear foot somewhere right? if i could get a 2 feet section, i could hack saw it down to the four 6 inch pieces i need.
just thought i'd ask this forum, to see if anyone know where to get this tubing from.
Thanks.
Trailex Aluminium Trailer Tubing
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Posted: Jan 27, 2013 - 07:31 PM
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Posted: Jan 27, 2013 - 07:44 PM
Call 800-282-5042 and order a piece of the extrusion or order this:
http://www.trailex.com/options2.cfm?id=115
I would just call them . . .
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Posted: Jan 27, 2013 - 08:02 PM
If you're just looking for 2" square aluminium stock, check a local scrap yard or metal recycler. Many of them resell scrap non-ferrous metal rather than recycling it. Should be faster and cheaper than buying from Trailex.
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Posted: Jan 27, 2013 - 11:09 PM
Use keyword aluminum extrusion tubing". There are tons of different vendors to choose from. The easiest one to look up is McMaster Carr:
http://www.mcmaster.com/#t-slotted-framing/=l86iq3
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Posted: Jan 28, 2013 - 04:41 AM
Thanks for all the responses. I found what im looking for. -
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Posted: Jan 28, 2013 - 05:04 PM
My aluminum Trailex has the crossbars(that the cradles are attached to) fixed to the underside of the longitudinal stringers. Could you not just undo the fittings & move it to the TOP of the stringers?
That would raise the cradles by the thickness of the original beams.
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Posted: Jan 28, 2013 - 05:44 PM
Planning to do exactly that to my P15's Highlander trailer, all the other trailers I've had, the cross-beams were mounted on top of the longitudinal spars......
Will lift the hulls 3-4 inches higher
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Posted: Jan 28, 2013 - 07:38 PM
It would raise the cradles by the thickness of the crossbeams AND the thickness of the longitudinal stringers (or frame). . .
I've mounted the crossbeams both under or over to get the height that I needed.
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Posted: Jan 29, 2013 - 01:24 PM
this is a GREAT idea..except if you mount on the top, that will interfere if you had a box to store the sails in. unless you mounted the box to the cross beams which are now sitting ontop of the frame.
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Posted: Feb 02, 2013 - 04:34 PM
If you go to Cut2size Metals they can cut any size and ship normally the next day. They have a lot of sizes and shapes that you might need if they don't have if they will try to find it for you,or recommend something else that might work.
