On 6/11/2025 10:25 AM, Jim Wilkins wrote:
"Bob La Londe" wrote in message news:102c5u5$21oc7$2@dont-email.me...
On 6/10/2025 6:24 PM, Jim Wilkins wrote:
"Bob La Londe" wrote in message news:1029tpe$1dr7m$1@dont-email.me...
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I threw money at it and ordered the shade this morning.
Bob La Londe
Which one?
This one. https://www.homedepot.com/p/VIWAT-12-ft-W-x-20-ft-D-Metal-Carport-with- Enhanced-Base-Outdoor-Heavy-Duty-Garage-Galvanized-Car-Canopy-and- Shelter-MCR-M2012-DG-1/333138115
I'm not to worried about rain damage. Dust wind are the big worries
here. Rain will dry off of it quick enough. I found cheaper ones, but with freight they cost more. This one was free freight to me.
Bob La Londe
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Nice!
I've never seen that style around here, perhaps because the horizontal corrugations would retain snow. The snow load design standard here is 70
Lbs per square foot, over a foot of solid ice, although some tarp
shelters survive winter. At least tornados are rare.
I patched one that didn't with a tarp with its side edges stapled to and rolled around wood slats screwed to the uprights. The owner bounced snow
off with a push broom from inside, until a particularly heavy night
storm brought it all down on his truck, with the sharp broken tube ends making several punctures. I considered how to attach vertically aligned corrugated galvy panels, which would have cost nearly as much as the
shelter you bought for the panels alone and more for (horizontal)
purlins 2' or less apart.
Luckily before Covid I bought many spare galvy panels to quickly replace damaged ones before the firewood underneath gets wet. Now they cost
twice as much and are two gauges thinner. https://www.homedepot.com/pep/Gibraltar-Building-Products-8-ft- Corrugated-Galvanized-Steel-31-Gauge-Roof-Panel-13513/202092961?
I didn't want to buy a rack, but I just don't have the time to get work
done, and build something from scratch. I'm going to put something like
this with one extension under the shade structure with all the arms on
the top 1/3 and a work bench I already have over the horizontals at the
bottom.
https://www.globalindustrial.com/p/cantilever-single-sided-starter-unit-medium-duty-4?referer=L2Mvc3RvcmFnZS91dGlsaXR5X3JhY2tzL2NhbnRpbGV2ZXJfcmFja3M%3D#customUrl:::prindex=0&pgkey=45421
Then throw the Fein chop saw on the end of the bench, so its level with
the surface.
https://www.zoro.com/fein-chop-saw-14-in-15a-mccs14/i/G7615413/
The shade structure arrives Monday and the rack arrives Wednesday. (Supposedly.)
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Bob La Londe
CNC Molds N Stuff
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