Ectomobile Roof Rack Blue Tube Parts and Fittings

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Lots of different parts for attaching the infamous blue tubes to your replica Ectomobile, or totally custom Ectomobile (like mine, fb.com/EctoWK). For car body to tubing connection, I used a 2" 90-Degree socket fit elbow. Screw a 2" 45lb magnet onto the magnet tube plug, then epoxy the plug into the elbow deep enough to only expose 0.015-0.030" of the magnet face for a clean look. For tube to roof rack, I used 2" 45-Degree street elbows, epoxied into the Rack Mount bottom half. The top and bottom halves clamp your roof rack crossbars from underneath to support the tubes. Ecto WK has a Rola roof rack (.632" bars on 3.75" centers). I have included the source Solidworks files so you can easily modify them yourself to support your individual roof rack. I can also do it for you if you shoot me a PM! To support the tubes from lifting in the wind, I designed an anti-lift bracket that clamps the tubes next to each other, and attaches to the car body with another 2" 45lb magnet. All screws used are #10-1". The blue tubes I used are not the RV sewer pipes, instead I used a Kleen-Rite 2" carwash vacuum hose, as it's much tougher and thicker. Edit: Magnets used - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IYFNXR0/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1