Go-bar Deck

Drjay · Post by **Drjay** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 1:46 pm

Hi Folks
Happy New Year. I have a question: Apart from StewMac, where can I get locally made go-bars? I have a ready made space so do not need to build from scratch.
Jim

Pete Brown · Post by **Pete Brown** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 1:51 pm

Jim, if you mean the rods themselves, try http://www.kitesite.com.au/components/f ... _rods.html

graham mcdonald · Post by **graham mcdonald** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 1:57 pm

10mm dowel from any hardware/timber yard

Rod True · Post by **Rod True** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 5:13 pm

any scrap hardwood rip to 1/4" x 3/4" and you're good.

Allen · Post by **Allen** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 6:25 pm

I got mine from Permex. They will cut to length for you as well. Just after I bought mine I found about 50 more of them at the local buy back shop at the tip. Got the lot for $2.

Permex

Mark McLean · Post by **Mark McLean** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 8:37 am

Bunning's sell bundles of bamboo garden stakes. You get dozens for a few bucks. About half of them have weak areas and will snap (do some test bends before you use them) - they go into the vege patch and the good ones stay in the workshop. Add rubber caps (also very cheap, get the white ones - black ones leave a mark on your work). I have been reusing the same bamboo rods for over a year and no failures. I have also used them inside the guitar as cheap spreaders. You can cut them to any size and when you want to remove them through the soundhole you reach in with garden secateurs and just cut them. They are so cheap that you can consider them to be disposable (reuse the caps of course). Even cheaper than the garden stakes are panels of bamboo screening which are dozens of rods wired together, but easily pulled apart.

Bob Connor · Post by **Bob Connor** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 9:05 am

Tent poles from your local outdoor shop.

I got mine from Ray's Tent city.

They weren't cheap from memory. They're good though.

Drjay · Post by **Drjay** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 10:34 am

Thank you all
You take out all the mystery surrounding these contraptions which us newbies are confronted with every day.
And so onward and upward.
Jim

gratay · Post by **gratay** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 10:46 am

G'day Jim..good to see another fellow hills folk here.

I am similar to Graham ..I use dowell ...cheap as chips ..I found Kilsyth bargain centre on cantebury road to be the cheapest around . there is also one on ferntree gully rd. about half the price of bunnings..you can buy it in 3.6m lengths and cut it to size.
cheers Grant

Drjay · Post by **Drjay** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 2:22 pm

Nice to hear from you Grant and thanks for the information.
Jim

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