Surprise... Brown Santa showed up last night a couple of days early with a long box. Had a party to attend last night so I got a late start this morning
and opened it up. The 5 inch schedule 5 304 stainless pipe is here.
Before I cleaned it up I sliced 25 inches off for the chute tube and then I cleaned both pieces up a little. The long piece went on the rack, the short piece is headed to the car. Yes it is hard to cut that size on a 4.5 inch saw... required a move to finish the cut.
Ok, starting to fit it into the car... welded an end cap for the tube, with a drain hole. Eventually it will be welded in, but not before a few brackets are attached. The water tank will have it's last two brackets attached, the chute release bracket will be added and the inertia kill bracket.
I also made an end cap for the top tubes with a passage for the electric/manual chute release...
next up I'll put the water tank back in and see where brackets go.