Pipe notching templates

Tube O. Seat Stay [SS] O. The Seat Stays to Seat Tube joint can be frustrating. Hopefully this stuff helps. Info you will need:. Tapered Base Tube O. Remember we are mitering the round tube to fit to the tapered tube Note angles carefully. Chainstay to Bottom Bracket. Cut Tube Major Axis O.

Assumptions: Reminder -- major and minor axes of an ellipse: The tube being cut is a true elliptical shape and the mating base tube is round. The elliptical shape is uniform in cross section along the length of the cut tube.

Tube One O. There are a lot of places where round tubes can be used for bracing or reinforcement. Collector Which product is being calculated?

Multiple Feeds to Sharp Cone Decorative? Feeder Tube O. Anybody doing art work? You can make pretty much any frame for a Platonic Solid using this tool. For this choice, blank out the entries for "Common Tube O. Round Tube to Flat Material Which product is being calculated? Many folks will have expensive tools for some of these cuts.

Left Tube O. Please help promote this free service Tell a Friend! Saved Calculations Select Saved Calculation. Click individual diagrams to remove.

Pipe - Tube Notching Templates. Pipe - Tube Miter Templates. Pipe Through Sheeting Templates. Plot Point Increments. Half Template. All Inch inputs and dimensions are actual physical finished sizes unless otherwise noted. Metre Meter. If you're a real geek, you could always just set up a web server with PHP and ImageMagick on your own computer and just run it yourself.

But if you were a real geek, you'd already have wi-fi in your shed, so you wouldn't care. Update on the stand-alone program thing: Dan Hopper has written a little DOS program that's slightly similar to the coping calculator. You can check it out here. Notes on the input fields To keep the server healthy, I've set the following limits: Tube diameter:. This depends on your grinding and welding style. If you want to cut the pattern at 0" thickness the theoretical OD , just see this , and note the difference between.

Most of that would be thinner than aluminum foil. And that's still not 0". You may also have to set the tube size a little fatter because tube is frequently oversized or irregular. If you're using heavy paper, this also adds a little to the size. If you've been paying attention, this will sound repetitive, but before you complain to me about the size being wrong, make sure you have "none" selected under "page scaling" in the Acrobat print dialog.

Even more notes Russell asked me to add some more notes for newbies: Mark a reference line down the tube both ends , then use the grinder to cut the pattern after tracing with a silver pencil.

The silver pencil shows up really well on the black mill finish on tubing. Click individual diagrams to remove. Pipe - Tube Notching Templates. Pipe - Tube Miter Templates. Pipe Through Sheeting Templates. Cut Tube Diameter must be equal or smaller than Parent Tube. Plot Point Increments. Half Template. All Inch inputs and dimensions are actual physical finished sizes unless otherwise noted.

Metre Meter. Metric Calculator.