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Diy hardtail struts help

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#1 ·
What would you use to make hard tail struts?
Iv had suggestions of the following
flat bar
Boxed steel
solid boxed steel

my measurement's are
eye to eye 8.5inch
1 inch thickness
2 inch wide (is less just over measuring to be safe)

Iv supplied pics of my frame and what Im hoping to achieve,

*I wont be doing any cutting or drilling just buying the materials and getting a local place to do it.
 
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#2 ·
I'd probably go with 1" diameter steel tube, .065 wall, make up some threaded bungs to weld in and use heim joints on at least one end so I could adjust the ride height as desired.

It looks like your example used 1" square tube and just through-bolted it, looks kinda hackish. 1" round tubes like I described would be more work but look wildly better imo. I would not use flat bar, if it were thick enough to be as stiff as needed in the application it'd be massively heavy compared to tube.
 
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