Luke000
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I am in the process of rebuilding my trailer for my new 1959 Lone Star El Dorado. The trailer is the original one that went with the boat, a Lone Star Road Crown. I am in the assembly process right now and i found out that the old shafts for the 8 rollers got thrown out, so I am in the the market for some new ones. The local trailer store is out of the 19 inch sections that i would normally cut up into the 7-inch sections. The ones on ebay are super expensive (about $18 a pice and i would need 4) and would take a while to get to me. I have a metal yard not too far from my house and they would cut up a section of 5/8 diameter 1018 mild steel in any length I need. All the metal I would need would be less than $10 and I just would get some end caps from my trailer shop. Is there any reason I should not go this route? The boat should weigh less than 1500-1700 pounds when it is water-ready. From what I can tell, the purpose made roller shafts are nothing special metallurgically besides being galvanized.