Striker the SS looks excellent, I've got the SS put aside out the back 8" Schedule 40, according to my calcs it should take a pivotal load up to about 850-900 kG at one metre with zero deflection, now I just need to work out the height required, I based my calcs on 1100mm which I'll settle on more than likely, draw it up and fab away ! I'm thinking I'll have the top adjustable plate spigot into the underside of my wedge for some overkill rigidity.
gbeal, great idea, I'll follow your 'lead', excuse the pun, on that one,
I've got some conduit to run up the inside of the pier so I can still fill it with sand and have conduit grometts to run the cable in. The heater control I'll also mount inside the wedge in a removable door for maintenance, and run the RCA's to the underside of the first mounting plate. I've got a sparky mate who'll run 240 out to the pier and mount a weatherproof switch for me so I can plug the laptop in. I'm also thinking I'll mount a couple of red leds on the underside of the first top plate so if I have visitors over I can turn them on to identify any stray cables.
Now all I've got to do is borrow an air pistol and take out the 2 street lights that stream into our yard
