Aluminum truck boxes vs metal

[wpt texas]

Can anyone share experience with aluminum truck boxes vs metal boxes. I'm building a truck and want to reduce weight amap. Thanks, and HAPPY NEW YEAR Brent in Texas

 

[SkwerI]

How secure do you need them? If you need to make your truck ghetto-proof then use steel.

 

[wpt texas]

Strength and duability are important.Where I'm from nothing is "GHETTO-PROOF".

 

[JIML]

depends on how much stuff you drop on your truck. My truck at work I end up working right over the truck sometimes. Stuff hits the boxes and bed, small stuff ill let hit the headache rack but not much. aluminum would dent easily, steels a little more stout..

 

[Old Monkey]

I would love an aluminum box on my truck but it costs more than I paid for the truck to have one built. I priced this set up before metal prices jumped up and it was $17,000 then.

http://www.eloquip.com/ProdChipper2.html

 

[SkwerI]

Metal prices have plummeted in the last few months thanks to the bottom falling out from under the economy. The prices paid by your local recycle yard will confirm that fact.

 

[sotc]

yeah but new is still spendy

 

[NeTree]

I don't get the question; aluminum IS a metal.

Did you mean aluminum versus steel?

In which case... STEEL.

 

[brendonv]

I'm a sucker for aluminum.

 

[ptptree]

Aluminum works for me due to the weight factor being a concern. Plus no rust.

 

[Al Smith]

You can't really make something thief proof but you can slow them down . Plate steel ,heavy hasps and pound and a half Master locks will do the job .

About the only thing you can actually do to prevent thievery is station a 300 pound goon nearby with a 36" Louisville slugger . A 100 pound foul tempered dog might work too ,a hungry one with big teeth .

Ha ,Toms' Jack Russel "Eddie " guards his log splitter .Nasty little rascal that would take on a grizzly bear .

 

[Jonseredbred]

Are we talking tool boxes or a dump body??

 

[sotc]

aluminum oxide is "rust"

 

[wpt texas]

I'm talking about tool box as in a 94" cross body I-box with pull out rope hangers etc. I'm building an under CDL truck and weight is critical. I'd like to find a prefab. If anyone has seen one please let me know. Thanks

 

[ptptree]

Aluminum does not rust it corrodes

 

[MasterBlaster]

Corrosion = rust.

 

[Al Smith]

Aluminum is what is known as a "sacrificing " metal .It will just disolve to powder over enough time because of galvanic action between the steel of a truck and the aluminum of the toolbox .

Once plate steel gets surface rust it actually protects the metal .Sounds odd,but true . BTW blueing on a firearm is just controlled rust .

 

[ptptree]

Corrosion = rust.

I always thought rust was specific to iron oh well. It (aluminum)still weighs alot less than steel.

 

[Dave Shepard]

It's all oxidation, aluminum oxide, ferrous oxide, and on and on.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Iron oxidation = rust = Iron oxide
Aluminum oxidation = aluminum oxide

Basically add oxygen and you will get degradation of most elements.
So everything in a way rusts.... so to speak.

What Dave said... ya beat me Dave... LOL

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Too bad Titanium is going back up since the first week of December... Now wouldn't that be the chat for a chip box .. Maybe too brittle though.. hmmmmmm:tomcat:

 

[Dave Shepard]

A friend of mine had a titanium wrecking bar. It's good to have friends at Generous Electric.

 

[sotc]

lifetime warrenty
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