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Square tubing connectors
Posted on 8/12/20 at 9:13 am
Posted on 8/12/20 at 9:13 am
Long story, but I ordered my kids one of the "in-ground" trampolines. Son wanted one for his birthday back in June, but everywhere we looked locally an online were out of stock. Wife signed up for notifications when they were back in stock at a few places, and about 8-10 days ago she got an email from one of them. Shipping took a few days, and when it got here yesterday morning via FedEx, it was obvious the box had been damaged in shipping. It was all taped up on both ends, and one of the springs was halfway sticking out one end of the box. My daughter was helping me get it assembled, and we had most of the frame in place, and were adding the short legs to it. Except we had 7 of the 8 connectors, and the last one wasn't in the box. It is a T shape, and has 1.5 inch square tubing, and 1.25 inch round tubing welded to the bottom, with a hole punched in the middle for a bolt to go through.
Similar to this one, I couldn't find an exact picture of the part, since the company website has drawings instead of pics on their replacement part ordering page. It is 3.5 inches across the square tubing, and just shy of 3.25 inches from the top of the square piece to the bottom of the round piece. The company I bought it from has ordered the replacement, but it is likely going to be a week or more before it gets here. I have an excited 7 year old who sees most of the frame put together and wants to jump, but I just can't finish it without this leg support. Would a hardware store have anything similar I could use in the meantime? I thought maybe in the fencing/decking area, but searching online I couldn't find anything but square to square connection sleeves and round to round connections.
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Similar to this one, I couldn't find an exact picture of the part, since the company website has drawings instead of pics on their replacement part ordering page. It is 3.5 inches across the square tubing, and just shy of 3.25 inches from the top of the square piece to the bottom of the round piece. The company I bought it from has ordered the replacement, but it is likely going to be a week or more before it gets here. I have an excited 7 year old who sees most of the frame put together and wants to jump, but I just can't finish it without this leg support. Would a hardware store have anything similar I could use in the meantime? I thought maybe in the fencing/decking area, but searching online I couldn't find anything but square to square connection sleeves and round to round connections.
Posted on 8/12/20 at 9:19 am to TU Rob
Do you know a welder? Wouldn’t take but a couple of minutes and some scrap iron to make one
Posted on 8/12/20 at 9:22 am to CottonWasKing
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Do you know a welder? Wouldn’t take but a couple of minutes and some scrap iron to make one
That was my first thought. My neighbor works in construction and I asked him yesterday. He said that his crew mostly does demo work before another crew does the rebuilds. All commercial properties. He was going to ask around, but they typically don't do any welding. Other than him, I don't know anyone that does welding.
Posted on 8/12/20 at 10:51 am to TU Rob
bring a $20 and one of the connectors to a any fab shop or muffler shop and they can make you a temporary one in a few minutes.
Posted on 8/12/20 at 12:50 pm to Bleeding purple
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bring a $20 and one of the connectors to a any fab shop or muffler shop and they can make you a temporary one in a few minutes.
take the kid with you....have the kid ask...probably won't cost anything.
Kids are a great tool to use....if you ever need tickets to a game take a kid, pinch her just before asking about tickets so her eyes are red and when you get the tickets return the kid to her parents and enjoy the game....also works when asking land owners for permission to hunt on their place but then you gotta have the kid along with you when you actually hunt the place.....I don't know from personal experience if this will work just as an FYI
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