More egg-headery - The van's got a giant tension rod in the front suspension
and that's where I'd pull it from.

In the back?  The bumper mounts are plenty strong - if I had a hitch I'd
replace the bolts with long ones to hook a strap onto...

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 4:19 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:

> At 06:52 PM 5/25/2011, Scott Daniel  - Turbovans wrote:
>
>> ok,
>> what is the tensile strength, in lbs, of a double loop of 4mm thick
>> sheet metal ?
>>
>
> That's much too general a question to answer, and I suspect you're
> looking for the yield strength anyway.
>
> But on the low end, ASTM A36 mild steel has a yield strength of
> 36,000 psi.  With a safety factor of four that gives you 12,000
> psi.  Figuring out the cross-sectional area of this hypothetical loop
> of metal and looking up data for stronger types of steel are left as
> an exercise for the reader.
>
> Since I'm sure you're talking about usable strength of the Vanagon
> front tie-down point - remember that unless you are pulling directly
> in line with both strips of metal, which is not possible, geometry
> and vector arithmetic enter into the problem.
>
> Yours,
> David
>

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