The LFD Off Road Thread

jafrush said:
Playing around the other day and made a few new things. Any interest in 304 stainless steel crossbars and roof racks?

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Sounds interesting. Would it have stainless hardware as well?
 
gdvan01 said:
I have steel 3/4 on order, I can hardly wait...

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Just waiting on the next batch of crossbars to come back from powder. We spent the last couple days just boxing up side rail pairs so we'd be ready when the crossbars come back!
 
Still working out details on those stainless crossbars. Just something we threw together out of some stainless scrap to see how it'd turn out.

Our parent company does about 70% of its production volume in stainless, so its not something we're unfamiliar with at all.
 
jafrush said:
Just waiting on the next batch of crossbars to come back from powder. We spent the last couple days just boxing up side rail pairs so we'd be ready when the crossbars come back!
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[MENTION=172113]gdvan01[/MENTION] I think I saw that the 3/4s are shipping today!
 
Mountainboiler5280 said:
I just sent an email about weight differences between steel and aluminum, but these look great. I'd be interested as well pending price.
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The aluminum are 2 lbs even. The steel ones are 4.7 lbs. I weighed them myself as I have both.

2 lbs is awesome but it is for those who don't want a rooftop tent. I doubt the aluminum ones would be strong enough.

I have a high lift Jack for mine and will be putting two Rotopax and Maxtrax on top, probably a shovel too.
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mteolus said:
The aluminum are 2 lbs even. The steel ones are 4.7 lbs. I weighed them myself as I have both.

2 lbs is awesome but it is for those who don't want a rooftop tent. I doubt the aluminum ones would be strong enough.

I have a high lift Jack for mine and will be putting two Rotopax and Maxtrax on top, probably a shovel too.
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Aluminum actually are fine for a RTT. They are more susceptible to deflecting with weight if you don't position them under the RTT properly though, which is why we typically recommend using steel for RTTs.
 
jafrush said:
Aluminum actually are fine for a RTT. They are more susceptible to deflecting with weight if you don't position them under the RTT properly though, which is why we typically recommend using steel for RTTs.
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Thanks for the info. Any word yet on the stainless bars you all ran through? I'm going to get an order together in the next week or two.
 
Mountainboiler5280 said:
Thanks for the info. Any word yet on the stainless bars you all ran through? I'm going to get an order together in the next week or two.
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Just added both raw stainless and powder coated stainless crossbars to the site!

also finally got some skid packages on the site this morning too
 
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