Shooting frame diagonal
Technical, Guns ·Sunday August 2, 2009 @ 20:45 EDT (link)
TH had a good suggestion for the shooting frame: I was trying to think of how I could put in a diagonal pipe for strength (to brace against the overhead cord), but I was thinking I'd need some sort of combination tee and wye pipe: he suggested I could put a diagonal down the middle (instead of at both sides), using a tee at each end, going from the center crosspiece to the base, splitting both. I'd already measured and the diagonal would need to be about 4'. If I buy a 10' piece I can cut two and have a little over to replace any piece that gets accidentally shot.
I went out and picked up the pipe for the diagonal at True Value today: they only had three tees; I'll need to get another from Home Depot tomorrow. I sawed out a piece from the middle of two of the 20" cross bars so the tee would fit (they had to still total 20" to match the other horizontal bars). I had to also shorten the diagonals I'd bought by about an inch (it was hard to judge exactly how long they needed to be to fit from pipe to pipe, also accounting for the tees at each end, so I felt it was better to err on the side of being too long and round up). The frame I've modified seems much stronger, but then, that is the power of triangles/diagonals.
Books finished: The Politically Incorrect Guide To the Middle East.
