Need Help Trying to match up a new sign post to an old one.

[CanDoASign4U]

Just curious if any of you might know of a supplier who could match up the rectangular, capped aluminum sign post shown the picture. It is 2" by 4", 3/16" walled aluminum with one end capped. Need at least six feet. One post was creamed in an accident but the sign and the other post survived.

 

[Moze]

Just curious if any of you might know of a supplier who could match up the rectangular, capped aluminum sign post shown the picture. It is 2" by 4", 3/16" walled aluminum with one end capped. Need at least six feet. One post was creamed in an accident but the sign and the other post survived.
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I don't understand what I'm seeing in the picture. To me it looks like two square tubes.

 

[CanDoASign4U]

Actually it is a rectangular sign post. The blue line is the edge of where the sign face was installed.

 

[signbrad]

2x4 rectangular tube should be available from an aluminum supplier.

I've never bought anything that was pre-capped. Capping one end is not difficult. I knew guys that cut the cap 1/16 shy on all four sides, leaving a tiny step when the cap rested on the top end of the tube. Then they placed four very tiny welds at the corners on the little ledge. "Show-off" welders.

My preference is to glue a cap. It can fit inside the inside dimension of the tube if you cut carefully, or sit on top flush with the outside of the walls (any overage can be filed or sanded off). Either way, you can support the cap with two pieces of angle glued to the inside walls and the underside of the cap.

On some square tubes I have found that some sizes of u-channel will fit snugly in the inside dimension. I put a little glue on the inside walls of the tube and then tap the u-channel piece into the end, legs down, till it's flush with the top.


Brad in Kansas City

 

[fixtureman]

Try a glass company.