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Lacking creative title, (yet preserve continuity) "Wait, one more second......"
Dreamed this up in my sleep. Fitful? Yes, but productive.
(working title) Baling wire, thrust washer, and pipe flange walk into a bar-
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dramatic pause, drumming fingers, Zzzzzzz's sound effect, people abandoning post... in droves!
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Box truck contains least twice the normal quantity of E-track. Probably due to prior owners staging loads according to a route, they utilized the overhead area more than normal. Instead of load bars and E-Track brackets, simple DIY U of 1/8" hot rolled with a narrower U welded on. The narrower, once inverted just hooks onto the added E_Track, which stands away from walls of box. The other U, now facing up, receives one end a length tubing (unknown variety, about !/8" wall). See example, inset. Of course, supported equally at opposite wall.
Well, they must have just tossed loads on the tubes, all are bent in varied amounts, bearing weight too close to center.
Attachment 44257 Good example here of before and after. There's about 25 needing this, first 5 merely a test.
I want them straight. The press here has tonnage but not enough bed working on 8' (~244cm) long parts.
It was a puzzle until genie sneaks into dream, whispering "~~forklift, ~~~boom lift, ~~pipe jacks, ~~~2"x8" lumber,"; "though nooooo clue how to meaaaasure them" as he sails off.
So,
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Forklift boom is the fulcrum, pipe jacks support area being worked (mostly closer together), the wire device saved some amount of sighting along edge, and setting high spot to press. Bent up the wire deal and leveled pipe, measuring at extreme ends. Put gauge inboard of the jacks and rotated tube, finding high or low. In a few tries, learned lever length to generate amount of pressure for deflection. Straightening always involves slight overbending, because metals have differing spring back. In terms common describing malformed sawn lumber, these are bowed, some also kinked, rather S shaped usually out of plane to each other. Reducing bow is simpler, while kink takes a degree of patience.
Use of the 2"x8" cut chances of denting and weakening the tube.
It must have worked.
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May skip weld some 3/16" strip or rod to them as a strongback, more likely get a few pallet rack wire decks as shelf panels, light weight and plenty available.
I thank your indulgence. Mind the stairs exiting, the ushers disappeared 20 minutes ago.
