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A few from the week. The first ones were tough. The main tubes were 0.6 mm (0.024") wall. A little nerve racking!

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The rest were a little more chill. Typical 0.7 - 0.8 mm wall.

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Beautiful work as usual Zank!
0.6mm is gettin pretty thin. How does it go for strength, is there a weight limit for the rider?
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Wall thikness dosent efect on the strenght of the pipe, only material and outside diameter. You can apply the same force in pipe or axle... until there is a litle dent in the pipe.


i have made controllarms for race cars with 0.8mm wall thikness pipe, material 4130. Worked great. Cant take any dents, but is same for the stiffness than hevier wall pipe.
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Well you're wrong about that. You're just operating at a lower factor of safety. If you did the strength calculations you would know this to be true.


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Thats true that the longevity of the part goes down with thin wall, but dosent effect the torsional stiffness much. Not problem @ racing (cars.. bikes..)
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Yeah! We got our ASME "R" stamp qual yesterday. This li'l root pass was enough to send the fire marshal and board inspectors over the edge. I then went to lunch with them and the bosses and stuffed myself full. Great bunch of folk.
It'll be 3-4 weeks before we have our certificate and stamp, but code work can proceed.

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Great news Steve, well done. I recon the feeling might better than a standing ovation.


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Well done!
I have more questions than answers

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Congratulations Steve
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Well done Steve! :D
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Great stuff Steve!



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Thanks, guys! I have one procedure and test left... One vessel in the queue is aluminum, so I have to qualify separately, and qualify a separate procedure.

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Good luck on the last one, Steve! Congrats so far!
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Last month or so I have ore pics of each if anyone wants moreImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImage

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Nice work 5th Street! Very nice..
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Good grief...inspiring work.


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Looks awesome 5th :)
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Some p91 field weld OD prep for phaser ray this is a power house main steam line. The system runs at 1950 degrees at 2400 psi. The weld shot good time for drinks!
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5th Street Fab wrote:Last month or so I have ore pics of each if anyone wants moreImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImage

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this looks sick, what kind of machine you use?


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Onenastycummins wrote:
5th Street Fab wrote:Last month or so I have ore pics of each if anyone wants moreImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImage

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this looks sick, what kind of machine you use?


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5th st
what do you use to cutout the aluminum parts?
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motox wrote:5th st
what do you use to cutout the aluminum parts?
craig
We have a router table for the main parts. Then we just use a shear or band saw for everything else.


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I haven't been around much lately due to some health reasons havent done any welding. Only did one project in months and it was my daughters new launch pad. Amazing how out of practice I was, felt like a beginner again and was shaky as hell. I got it done except blast deflector we designed not made yet. I'm not happy with my welding looks like crap but she likes it and its works.
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why use standard nozzles after gas lens where invented. Kinda of like starting fires by rubbing sticks together.
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