I am looking at making a sliding gate for my back garden driveway out of 
square steel box section and cladding it with ply but I am unsure of the 
strength of the box section, the gate will be approx 3.2m long X 1.8m high, 
sitting on rollers on a track.

I was thinking of using 50mm X 50mm square section with a 5mm wall and 
welded together - does anyone have any idea if this will be a suitable gauge 
steel for this project ?

Many thanks for any input.

Franko

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> I am looking at making a sliding gate for my back garden driveway out of
> square steel box section and cladding it with ply but I am unsure of the
> strength of the box section, the gate will be approx 3.2m long X 1.8m
high,
> sitting on rollers on a track.
>
> I was thinking of using 50mm X 50mm square section with a 5mm wall and
> welded together - does anyone have any idea if this will be a suitable
gauge
> steel for this project ?
>
> Many thanks for any input.
>


Way too heavy.  Use 3mm.

Steve

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>I am looking at making a sliding gate for my back garden driveway out of 
>square steel box section and cladding it with ply but I am unsure of the 
>strength of the box section, the gate will be approx 3.2m long X 1.8m high, 
>sitting on rollers on a track.
>
> I was thinking of using 50mm X 50mm square section with a 5mm wall and 
> welded together - does anyone have any idea if this will be a suitable 
> gauge steel for this project ?
>
> Many thanks for any input.
>
> Franko

What about just using timber instead of steel for the framework, does anyone 
think it would warp much ?

Franko

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> "Franko"  wrote in message 
> news:dgbbql$725$1@nwrdmz03.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...
>>I am looking at making a sliding gate for my back garden driveway out of 
>>square steel box section and cladding it with ply but I am unsure of the 
>>strength of the box section, the gate will be approx 3.2m long X 1.8m 
>>high, sitting on rollers on a track.
>>
>> I was thinking of using 50mm X 50mm square section with a 5mm wall and 
>> welded together - does anyone have any idea if this will be a suitable 
>> gauge steel for this project ?
>>
>> Many thanks for any input.
>>
>> Franko
> What about just using timber instead of steel for the framework, does 
> anyone think it would warp much ?
>
> Franko


use   50*50*3mm galvanised box section

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