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If I were t try to make a bike trailer from plastic pipe, what sort of pipe would be best?
As a non welder, with limited mechanical skills, I wondered about building a trailer from say, plastic plumbing pipe, having the advantage of L shaped joints for corners and T joints to strut it for strength. Granted, its not going to be as strong as a metal one, and probably not much lighter, but its something for me to work on in my forthcoming man cave/basement....
There might be some inspiration on Indestructibles.com
[url= http://www.instructables.com/pages/search/search.jsp?cx=partner-pub-1783560022203827%3Anpr2q7v5m6t&cof=FORID%3A11&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=trailer ]linky[/url]
Ha! Thats where I came from! I just figured plastic would be easier to work with than metal pipe!
google bamboo bike trailer
A plastic trailer might be ok for carrying your sandwiches (unless you eat a lot)...
Probably a better idea to build it out of metal (aluminium extrusions) and bolt together.
surely a strutted rectangle of 1 inch pvc pipe would be pretty strong? and bend rather than break would be better for me i feel?
Given the cost of bits, I'd just be scavenging bits from skips until I had enough 32mm waste pipe and joints, but wouldn't want to use it for load bearing in anthing more than about 500mm lengths. I like the idea of just attaching wheels to a big trunk or barrel and working up from there. We used to have a hard based kid trailer and it was more than adequate for the big weekly shop(without the kids in).
That was my next idea, a bit less aesthetically pleasing, but a bread crate with wheels attached would be easier!