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  1. Well I might buy some used bedford plate but am wondering if there ws a
    way to make good plates without welding? I bent a few pairs of angle
    Iron ones so is there a way to maybe reinforce em?

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  2. Yeah I might try that. Any other idea's?

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  3. Another way is to get some corner steel brackets and put them under your
    iron bracket. You can bolt them if you don't want to weld.

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  4. Yeah I'd bolt em but that would kinda screw up grinding.

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  5. Well, you have to weld then. Weld another plate under the steel
    brackets. Or glue it.

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  6. Dude, you should realy just weld 'em. you can probably find a place to
    do it real cheap and you wouldn't have any bolts sticking out to screw
    your grinding up.

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  7. Have you tried just making the plates out of steel instead of iron?

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  8. GUI said:

    Have you tried just making the plates out of steel instead of iron?

    All the plates I know about that are being sold are aluminum or steel.

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  9. Yeah but all I can find is angle "Iron" can you get me a link to angle
    steel?

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  10. I think that Angle Steel is also called Angle Iron.

    Anyway, it is probably better to buy premade plates unless you want to
    learn to weld. Your first weld and design will definatly fail. No
    doubts.

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  11. Eroick said:

    I think that Angle Steel is also called Angle Iron.

    Anyway, it is probably better to buy premade plates unless you want to
    learn to weld. Your first weld and design will definatly fail. No
    doubts.

    Umm... I am currently building plates for a wheel in manufacturing
    class...

    My teacher ran over them with his Impala and they are just as straight
    as before... of which they are a perfect 90 degrees...

    But... they're made from 1/4" thick steel... and weigh.. well, you
    don't want to know.. the foot plate is 10"x4" and they're hung 3 1/4"
    below the axel.

    Once I sand them up and clean up the welds and paint it, I'll get
    pictures.

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  12. HAHA I am in the process of making some insane plates that will end up
    UNBendable, they are 3/8" thick steel angle iron that is 4-5" across 🙂

    im curious, how big should I make the foot plate part?

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  13. 'These guys' (http://www.onlinemetals.com/) will sell you short lengths
    of angle steel/aluminum. The aluminum seems to be about 1/4 theprice
    for the same size/length of material.

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  14. skrobo said:

    HAHA I am in the process of making some insane plates that will end up
    UNBendable, they are 3/8" thick steel angle iron that is 4-5" across 🙂

    im curious, how big should I make the foot plate part?

    I was going to make mine 5" wide.. because my boots are 5" wide.. but
    we only had 4" wide stock, and it's already heavy enough... I made
    them 10" long though, that seems to be a lot more than enough length to
    deal with.

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  15. skrobo said:

    HAHA I am in the process of making some insane plates that will end up
    UNBendable, they are 3/8" thick steel angle iron that is 4-5" across 🙂

    im curious, how big should I make the foot plate part?

    Yeah, and its going to take 7/8ths of your muscle power to pick those
    plates off the ground and put them on your bc.

    Who dosnt like bolts?
    [image: http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j288/evanbyrne/P1010167.jpg]

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  16. Evan Byrne said:

    Yeah, and its going to take 7/8ths of your muscle power to pick those
    plates off the ground and put them on your bc.

    Who dosnt like bolts?
    [image: http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j288/evanbyrne/P1010167.jpg]

    That's crazy! How much do those plates weigh?

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  17. Evan Byrne said:


    Who dosnt like bolts?
    http://tinyurl.com/eoclo

    OMG!:eek: The BC has Disc Brakes! Amazing!

    Video footage?

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  18. The plates arnt that heavy, they way they attatch, the wheel, axle and
    disc brake are heavy.

    The whole shibang is around 18lbs.

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  19. uhmm
    is that evan w/ a 20"?? (there is really nothing to compare to)

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  20. Its a 26", Made for rolling over stuff on trails. I use 20" for urban.

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