Copper tubing for rails?

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kootenayklaus

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Hey NS. I was thinking about making another rail to add to my arsenal and I was wondering if copper tubing would work? I've used pvc on all my other ones cuz its cheap and works great but I'm looking to make something a little more realistic to what you would find in the park without spending a bunch of cash. Im thinking if it didnt work alone maybe a good layer of wax would help. Has anyone done this?
 
*COUGH* STEEL *COUGH*

Steel or iron is usually what parks use anyway.... and it's WAY WAY WAY WAY cheaper than copper. Copper is basically like asking if it's smart to use sterling silver as a rail.

BTW: Copper is too soft.
 
try to stay away from iron because it will rust like mad! steel is good but i dunno about copper.
 
anything will slide for a bit...but one of those times your edge is gonna sink in and you'll take a digger....just find some steel piping or saw down a stairset rail haha
 
yea i have heard about people jacking copper out of peoples vacation houses to sell because the price for copper is so high right now, so def not your cheapest bet.....
 
lul wut?! copper is expensive, use steel. you'll have a way better range of sizes. I'd also imagine trying to slide on copper would result in failure
 
Actually the best sliding rail possible is PURE gold... you can't use that leafing shit... it wont slide.

PURE gold rails... basically the same as asking if you should use copper rails.
 
i heard it gets pretty hard and slidey but the uranium rod usually brings down the expectancy of your life by like 90%..... or so i heard from this one guy who tried it once.... i think hes dead now?
 
haha. Steel and iron are the same thing. If you dont want it to rust you have to get Stainless. And unless you want a rail that costs quadruple what a normal one would ....
And as far as copper, the only thing that would be worse would be aluminum. Copper is soft and youll catch on it. Plus it will bend easier.
 
I would probably take aluminium over copper. Copper is so damn soft, to get a useful wall diameter that wouldn't collapse when you hit it a few times you would be talking mega $$$ piping.
As someone said, if you can get that much copper piping, take it to a scrap dealer and sell it.Then use the profit on steel rails, hookers and blow.
 
Iron oxidizes (rusts) when it meets oxygen, filling in the sapces in it. Steel doesnt rust and is stronger because it fills in the atomic structure between atoms of Fe (Iron)
 
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@ KC Deane: Iron = pure iron, Steel = Iron-carbon alloy and is much harder and better resistant to weathering/oxidation/rust....

On topic:
Only place i might consider using copper is to line the sides of a box ....but really its a very soft metal, your edges will cut it like butter, so i wouldn't recommend it at all.....
 
i also heard buying a solid steel rectangular prism in the size of your box is lightweight and cheap
 
if you have hook ups to get it cheap enough to consider making a rail out of it you should buy a ton of it sell it and buy yourself something nice. oh and materials to make a real rail.
 
on a related note:a friend of mine collects 1 and 2 cent coins because their copper value is higher than their actual value....
maybe a good idea for all those in need of extra cash?
 
Pennies aren't worth shit if they were made after 1982 since they're 97.5 zinc but a nickel is worth about 6.5 cents as scrap metal... it's also utterly illegal to destroy currency.
 
i'm talking euro-cents :)
but yes it is illegal, but who's gonna keep track, once theyre molten there's virtually no way to distinguish them from ordinary copper....
 
no it's not, but apparently i wasn't correct either
apparently they're copper-covered steel, so that explains why my buddy was wrong also, he probably tought they were copper, because of the outside, then weighed them and came to the conclusion they were worth more then 1 cent :)
http://www.fleur-de-coin.com/eurocoins/coins.asp
if you're gonna prove someone wrong, get your facts right :)
 
abandoned rail way.. find one, take a rail segment.... its already smooth and descent shape and its strong as hell, just don't get caught
 
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