weight per foot: 4" x 4" x .375" inch angle iron? for 'the monolith' toolbox... (pix too)

There is a steel supply catalog on this site with weight per foot specs.

-M

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Steel weighs 40 pounds per square foot at one inch thick. Quarter inch is ten pounds. A 8 inch by 12 inch 1/4 thick would weigh 2/3rds of ten pounds or about 6 plus. 3/8 thick would weigh half again so the angle weighs in around 9 plus pounds per foot. This is just in case you don't have a steel table handy. Randy

-extraordinarily- heavy.

I need to use it for a toolbox frame (or at least the lower part of the frame). this toolbox will be 'humongous'; you can see pix of the "source parts": this whole deal, the 28 drawers, full suspension slides and all of it was a "3 buck sealed bid" win...pix at

thanks guys,

toolie

ps-working alone, it took me a five hour long visit to "blocking and cribbing town" to get this thing out of my van...chained it to the fence, drove away slow ... 'precarious to the extreme' doesn't quite do it justice

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My first welding table for wrought iron was made of 4 x 4 x .375 angle. It was four feet by ten feet by three feet high. That's forty feet plus eight plus twelve (less a tad)

I moved the thing five times, and I wondered what it actually weighed.

This time, I made one out of 2 x 2 x .250, in the same dimensions, and I don't like it because it has too much flex, and you can't use it to bend things like I could the old heavy table.

I wonder whatever happened to that table............

Steve

Steel weights 7.88 grams/cubic cm or 489 pounds per cubic foot.

Measure the volume of all the steel. Make your measurements in inches.

L x W x H time .283= total weight.

For instance