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Default Material for hinge pins in aluminum

Stormin Mormon wrote:

If the hinge barrels are 1 inch outside diameter, and you
buy some 1 inch outside diameter tubing. How do you interact
the two?


You're right. I misread it as ID.




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"jim" "sjedgingN0Sp"@m@mwt,net wrote in message
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On Oct 4, 8:32 pm, "Nok" wrote:
Hi All,
I'm building an aluminum hinged cover for a dry well.
The hinge barrels are
1" o.d. aluminim and I had originally planned on
stainless hinge pins. Any
reason not to use aluminum hinge pins (much cheaper)?
Thanks,
Nok


It sounds as if the hinge pins will not have much stress.
How about
using some plastic pipe for hinge pins? Maybe CVPC. It
will not rust
and will not encourage the aluminum to rust. It is very
cheap.


Copper or stainless 1" OD tubing would be stronger than
plastic. A foot
of tubing doesn't cost very much.

-jim



Dan