I'm considering using stainless steel shipping strap material for my fuel tank straps. McMaster carries a 302 stainless material that is 0.75"x0.025" as specified. Based on it's estimated breaking strength, it looks to have the properties that you see around the web for 302 stainless.
It would be less work than cutting out my own straps and wouldn't require painting. Lastly, it would save weight to use 0.75" wide material (as specified by Bob) than the 1" material most use. The only drawback I see is that most rubber chaffing material is designed for 1" wide straps, so I could cut out my own rubber strips and attach with double sided tape.
Incidentally, I asked Bob and he didn't have any problems with it, but i wanted to throw it out to you guys to point out what I'm missing.
Nic
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It would be less work than cutting out my own straps and wouldn't require painting. Lastly, it would save weight to use 0.75" wide material (as specified by Bob) than the 1" material most use. The only drawback I see is that most rubber chaffing material is designed for 1" wide straps, so I could cut out my own rubber strips and attach with double sided tape.
Incidentally, I asked Bob and he didn't have any problems with it, but i wanted to throw it out to you guys to point out what I'm missing.
Nic
#1217
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