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    BUYING STEEL TUBE FOR FABRICATION

    Jan 22, 2021 4 minutes
    By Verne Simons editor@fourwheeler.com
    Photos: Verne Simons

    tructural steel tube is widely used in off-road fabrication because it offers high strength relative to weight. But buying steel and steel tubing for your 4x4 project can be daunting and expensive to those who haven’t done it before. Sure, you can grab a 3- to 4-foot length of mild steel at the local hardware outlet store, but you’ll pay out the nose for it (relatively speaking), and 3 to 4 feet of steel doesn’t go far when it comes to building an off-road rig. And is it even the best kind of steel for you to use? Eventually, once you’ve started fabricating your own parts out of steel and other metals, you’ll want to

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