Reference: Top Bows - 15-cwt truck

[David Dunlop]

Hello Bob.

I was just out in the back garden with our puppy and noticed our gate in the chain link fence and its construction caught my eye. Photos attached.

The pipe used appears to be a 1.25 inch OD and the gate is formed in two vertical C-shaped sections fitted together at the centre points. Normally, this type of sleeved fitting involved flaring one end to a larger diameter to accept the nominal sized pipe. In this case, one pipe end is drawn to a smaller diameter to fit inside the nominal pipe size so a much smoother outer diameter is maintained.

This looks like a technique that might work well in fabricating CMP top bows and Chain Link Fence suppliers might have access to pipe sizes that would work, so I thought I would pass it along.

David