Chris Chapman
Active Member
I have a shop teacher who is all about doing projects for me. I'm seriously looking at changing my Hollywood and Broadway flats to using square steel tube for framing. I m not a steel guy at all, and non of my books have any reference on steel framing for flats. Any suggestions on where I should look?
For facing steel tubed flats, would you just use self tapping screw going through the luan, or would bolting the skins on be better? I'm looking for lifetime concerns on the flats, so how many times can you retap the frames before you have to junk them? Once skinned, the only times they would need to be reskinned is due to damage, so maybe I'm over thinking this...
Besides flats, I'm considering steps, and some truss work. What other basic, stock stuff would you recommend going to steel for? Door frames. Definitely free standing steel door frames too.
For facing steel tubed flats, would you just use self tapping screw going through the luan, or would bolting the skins on be better? I'm looking for lifetime concerns on the flats, so how many times can you retap the frames before you have to junk them? Once skinned, the only times they would need to be reskinned is due to damage, so maybe I'm over thinking this...
Besides flats, I'm considering steps, and some truss work. What other basic, stock stuff would you recommend going to steel for? Door frames. Definitely free standing steel door frames too.