Conduit Pontoon Frame?

I work as an instrument tech and recently had to run some conduit. The shop I work in has a automatic bender that will bend any type of metal pipe up to inch and a half diameter. As I was working the job I realized that I could very easily bend this Rigid 3/4 inch conduit and use other condulet fittings to build a pontoon boat frame. One of the cool things is how easily I could make adjustments and tweek the design with readily accesible materials.

Anybody have any advice against this? Im not sure what strength metal the companies such as Outcast use, but I have walked on multiple pieces of 3/4 before without a problem. That was in the air with nothing to give like water / pontoons underneath.

Anybody have a design that I should try out? Otherwise I might just mitate my Pac 900 frame and try to adapt to larger tubes. I have a 9 foot and wouldnt mind 10 foot toons. Anyone know where I could puchase these?

Thanks,
Josh

I think the frame would be very heavy and not worth the trouble.

spend the money for aluminum, then come up and use my tig and spool gun after dry fitting all the pieces..

If you do make one your self then don't ever take it on moving water imho.

Look at the pontoon build thread in this forum. I built that toon frame out of 3/4" light gauge conduit. it works great for frame for use in toons and rafts. most frames are built with 1" conduit but for a single man toon 3/4 is fine. let me know if you have any questions. Plus if you look around the WFF site you can get a lot of good ideas for your frame.:thumb:

Are you saying that your using 3/4 EMT conduit and not 3/4 Ridged?

yeah it's the EMT light gauge conduit.