"ex_squid" wrote
Thanks reader, thanks Evan,
I am aware of Brownell and I think their prices are reasonable but I
thought I'd try to find them locally first to avoid the shipping. I'm
also
looking into the cost of having them built for an "overall" comparison.

You are probably only going to need 6 or 7 stands. I doubt you will find a
welding shop that can make them cheaper than Brownell. I have all the
equipment to build them myself so I looked into it once and figured that the
material alone to build a 50" stand would run about $75. The 1 1/4" Acme
threaded rod for the top will cost about $12/foot and you will need
18"/stand. The wing nut is another $40.

You will have to absorb a lot of tooling cost.. A welding shop will have to
make a jig in order to keep
the angles right and we haven't even started talking about the swivel heads.
I doubt you could build them in small quantities for under $140 each
including labor.

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