There are so many applications for tubular steel in industry that it would be almost impossible to list them all. One important area is the manufacturing of sporting equipment. The average manufacturer of sports equipment and hardware will use tubular steel for numerous products. After all, it is durable, long-lasting and relatively easy to form into the shapes needed by sporting equipment. What products do manufacturers of sports equipment make from sections of tubular steel in Australia today?
Football Goals
In schools and playgrounds where football goals will be permanently installed, tubular steel can be used for both the uprights and the crossbars of goals. In professional situations, other materials are also used to fashion goals, such as aluminium. In such settings, a manufacturer of sports equipment will still usually make use of sections of tubular steel to form the goal's net supports. Most five-a-side goals are almost entirely made from tubular steel as are so-called futsal goals, neither of which conform to the usual goal size.
Outdoor Gym Equipment
Outdoor gyms have become increasingly popular in both Europe and the southern hemisphere in recent years as an alternative to indoor gym equipment. Since it needs to be designed for heavy usage and vandal resistance, as well as putting up with constant exposure to the elements, most manufacturers will opt for tubular steel. The material can be fashioned into all sorts of resistance trainers such as steppers and rowers, for instance. Tubular steel is also formed into outdoor gym cycling machines as well as parallel rails. No other material offers the same degree of adaptability and strength in this sort of environment.
Exterior Basketball Goals
Although box sections of steel remain widely used for outdoor basketball goal mounts, tubular steel is also commonplace. In places where padding will be placed around supports, tubular steel is preferable because it is round and the padding is consequently easier to fit. Gooseneck goal mount designs that allow a basketball backboard to extend from outside the playing area into the court are also easy to form by the sort of bending processes that are commonly used by all tubular steel fabricators.
Netball Goals
Tubular steel is such an ideal material for netball goals that it is the most common material used by manufacturers of sporting equipment for both indoor and outdoor versions. Indeed, both fixed-position netball goals as well as those which operate telescopically – thanks to two differently sized sections of tubular steel – are made with the material.
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