Posted by David Sherman on Sunday, June 18, 2006 at 10:44PM :
In Reply to: U-bolts posted by Michael Fanoni on Sunday, June 18, 2006 at 8:31PM :
I concur with everybody who says don't try to make your own. I made some u-bolts to hold a water tank in the trailer and had a heck of a time bending the rods without cracks developing, even with a torch. I ended up just welding up all the cracks, since it's no big deal if one of them breaks in that application (they don't hold any weight, just keep the tank from sliding around, and there's 4 of them), but there is no way I would ever trust my life or even my nice truck to a home-made U-bolt in a high-stress mission-critical application.