Aluminum Rod material?
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Many British motorcycles from the 1930's to they all went out of business in the 60-70's used forged aluminum rods, some with a steel cap. I believe it was called Duralumin....After all these years many including me don't trust them ...You measure the rod big end, if it's out of round by about .001" ,the rods are scrap, they cannot be resized. This is the only warning you'll get before the rod fails...
I use R&R aluminum rods in one of the race bikes. The other uses steel rods...
I use R&R aluminum rods in one of the race bikes. The other uses steel rods...
Motorcycle land speed racing... wearing animal hides and clinging to vibrating oily machines propelled by fire
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Given the choice, the rod material of choice would be titanium.
Ti far exceeds Al in every aspect: thermal expansion, thermal coefficient, tensile, elongation,and hot strength.
Al does have an advantage in density, 0.1 to 0.16, but both are far lower than steel.
Ti far exceeds Al in every aspect: thermal expansion, thermal coefficient, tensile, elongation,and hot strength.
Al does have an advantage in density, 0.1 to 0.16, but both are far lower than steel.
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You are correct. Closest modern alloy would be 2014 or 2024 I believe. Most notably used in Zeppelins (Hindenburg and others) after its invention in the early 1900s
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In the next few years there probably will be the plastic/graphene rods. Lighter than just plastic rods alone, and graphene is harder than diamonds and 100 times stronger than steel, while being lighter than air, and transferring heat 12 times better than copper. And thats just the tip of that iceberg.
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Graphene rods would be nice but if the set costs $75,000 i doubt there would not be many buyers for those.
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graphene? just study this page and be dizzy
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 2115002084
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 2115002084
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Dural/2024 was the highest strength alloy readily available to the Brit designers. Compared to 7075 at engine operating temperature it has similar uts but significantly less fatigue strength.
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Interesting. No vendors available for that material according to Mat Web. May be another experimental material that is good in compression but severely anistropic and or only produced in 10000 Kg mill quantities at many times the price of 7075.SchmidtMotorWorks wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2018 10:23 pm Read this
https://www.google.com/patents/US6502480
The patent also expired 3 years ago due to non payment.
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Graphene is costly when made a little at a time in a lab in a high dollar lab, but it is just the simplest carbon, and is found just about anywhere made from just about any source.Your lead pencil on school was actually graphene, on top of graphene, and so on. Many layers of it is called graphite. Strictly speaking graphene is only one layer thick, but 4 or 5 layers thick can have much of the same properties and that will be easier to produce.
There are already graphene tires, tennis rackets and more. Samsung has a new lithium battery, with a little graphene ball in it that will double or more the batteries life, and probably let it charge in a fraction of what they do now.
https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung ... ging-speed
A graphene plastic rods or crank might actually cost very little, in mass production.
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Morgo wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2018 3:55 pm graphene? just study this page and be dizzy
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 2115002084
This is kind of along the same lines, or when they fed graphene to spiders.
https://newatlas.com/bionic-spider-silk-graphene/50908/
Now get this one, graphene riding across nano diamonds has virtually no friction.
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With the whittling down the weight of modern steel rods, while still maintaining strength, there seems little reason to me to risk using 'Kaboom' alum rods...
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Back when we used to make them we used 7075 and 7076 (for the SuperRods).
Childs and Albert used that "proprietary" material and Bob once told me what it was....but I forgot.
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Mark, the brand "SuperRods"? If so, man I sure put those things to the test and they survived well, plenty of stories to tell about how good those rods were.Mark O'Neal wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2018 1:22 amBack when we used to make them we used 7075 and 7076 (for the SuperRods).
Childs and Albert used that "proprietary" material and Bob once told me what it was....but I forgot.
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