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Originally Posted by bmack2

Thanks Bob,

What did you use to attach the aluminum covering, self tapping metal screws? What wall thickness tubing and angle did you use?

Thanks so much again, the flickr album helped immensely. I think I am going to go for something very similar to your design except a little less beefy as my bed is not as long as yours and to try and keep the weight down and thus $ down.

Aluminum rivets to attach the aluminum sheet, I'm going to replace with SSteel one of these days. all the 1" tube is 1/8" wall everything else is 3/16" wall. the only steel is 2"x6" rect. tube., 3" x3" angle and 1"x1" square for the top. couple pieces of plate 6" x6" to cap the ends of the top horizontal bar.