OT: What's this type of bracket called?

That's Noddy you're addressing there. He is a toxic little lying dweeb that usually only infests aus.cars. Noddy's problem is that he is of limited intellect so comprehension of a topic more complex than glue on stamps is way beyond his ken!

just as I suggested. but why have a simple fix when the whole matter can be complicated to the extreme?

golf clubs shafts are still steel. unless they're graphite of course.

huh? you can bend plastic conduit?

Lucky you.

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.... Phil

felix wrote in news:h0ibh8Fra0rU5 @mid.individual.net:

I knew a guy had a business taking 3" PVC pipe segment about 18" long and cutting two ten inch slits through them (4 actually). Then he heats them up in a big tall pot of boiling water. Then he presses the two ends together and the cnetr splits flex outward. It looks like a flower when he is done, but he sells them for like $50 each to the state and they used them as spacers for the refitting of bridge stanchions. He makes quite a bundle.

To make a good bend on the plastic conduit, one would likely have to fill it with sand and do it hot like I described. (then empty the sand of course).

It looks like a stay bar to me.

You could buy mild steel tubing and cold-form it (using a hammer etc)

With PVC you can stick a spring inside it and then bend it, then pull the spring out. or you can warm it up a bit and and it goes flexible like a hose.

Just use corrugated plastic conduit and bend to any shape you desire.

Noddy resides in aus.cars and is the resident nutter that sees himself as the "authority" there. Sylvia hardly ever posts there, but he likes to invent things and deride others so...

Yes, I've seen sparkies heat the pipe with a blowtorch and bend it around.

It's called a strut brace or 90 degree strut brace.

Sometimes called a knee strut brace. If you do a Google image search for "knee strut brace" you'll see heaps of them.

Quck, someone shoud send him another link to ativities in the Brazillian forests. He got quite a kck out of the last one.

I see you're still a 6 pack short of a half dozen then Tezza. Must be all those falls you had on your bike while wearing a terry-towling hat as a helmet.

wow. kudos to him for that

you are entirely correct, sir ..

that should keep Sylvia busy for all of next week. :)

Yes with a variety of methods, judicious use of heat,bending springs, which you put on the outside or the inside of the conduit, bend round your knee and remove the spring.