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would I better be using 'whiteheart' or 'blackheart' malleable iron pipes / fittings for this.
Whatevs. Malleable, ductile, wrought is all the same for your purposes, just get whatever is cheapest. You'll probably want steel pipe, iron generally only comes in much bigger sizes than your design requires. Consider electrical conduit rather than water pipe, it might be cheaper.
would copper / brass also work?
Brass fittings would be OK if you want that aesthetic, copper plumbing pipe would be too weak.
why not use a stainless steel pipe?
Nice but pricey. If you're not playing on the deck of an ocean going vessel, not worth it unless you don't might paying loads for shiny.
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Thanks a lot!
Yea I thought copper pipe would be too weak.
Conduit I've seen so far looks pretty shit.
Cost of stainless might be doable considering the price of the gong itself, not seing easy-assembly fittings so far though; it's either for glueing or looks like a faff (headless screws etc.)
Anyway thanks for the useful advice, I appreciate it.
salad
One for the metalheads!
I want to build a gong stand like the one shown in the picture below.
I understand this is made from malleable iron.
Can somebody who knows about this shit please tell me
Thanks!