The Ruffstuff Revolution Continues!
Update, 6/7/16
6 Years since the last big update! I remember when I bought our 1st batch of Heim Joints 8 years ago, I was really excited to be able to offer a whopping 50 Heims, that's right, all of 50 joints! Now we are a bit different. We have a tad over 23,000 different Heim Joints in stock today, 23,000! We re-stock every 30 days with 15,000 being the base level we want to have on hand. Of course 8 years ago we had 4 employees, myself and my teenage son Zack after school. Now we have 30 great employees, myself and my 24 year old son.
UPDATE, 5/29/10
Big changes here at Ruffstuff on our Heim Joints! We have been doing some research and testing for the last 10 months and have come up with something very interesting! What we have discovered should have been very well known but seems to have been overlooked by the industry.
Everyone knows the benefit of Heat Treating and of course all of our heims are HT, its only common sense. Most of you know about Cryogenic Treating of metals after HT also, something that shouldn't be overlooked as we subject things to greater and greater stresses.
What has been overlooked are the benefits of Cryogenic Treating to other materials. I am talking about Plastics, Nylons, & Teflons, the very materials our Heim Joint bearing liners are made from. The realignment at the molecular level of the material smoothes the surface and improves density allowing for a much longer bearing life. 10 Months is not 5 years and we don't have a machine to put something through 20 million cycles but we have recorded less than 1/2 the wear in the test group in favor of the Cryo treated. That would indicate 50-100% longer lifespan of the joints that have been cryogenically treated.
With our limited testing ability I am going to have to side with the scientists opinion. I won't cite research sources, you all have Google too so you can do the same search and see for yourself!
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The benefits are many and we simply haven't found anything detrimental from the process. The Cryogenic process also makes the HT Rod End AND Ball harder from further martensite conversion (Talk to the scientists). This process increases the ultimate radial static load 8-15% but we will not make any claims of further strength we cannot afford to prove but you can safely assume a 78,000lb RSL heim gains 3-5,000lbs in RSL.
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This is the first product we have sold that hasn't been made by us, now they are made to our specs by one of the best manufactureres in the world. And by the end of next week all of our Heim Joints will be both Heat Treated & Cryogenically Treated!
http://www.ruffstuffspecialties.com/catalog/RODENDS.html
Update, 6/7/16
6 Years since the last big update! I remember when I bought our 1st batch of Heim Joints 8 years ago, I was really excited to be able to offer a whopping 50 Heims, that's right, all of 50 joints! Now we are a bit different. We have a tad over 23,000 different Heim Joints in stock today, 23,000! We re-stock every 30 days with 15,000 being the base level we want to have on hand. Of course 8 years ago we had 4 employees, myself and my teenage son Zack after school. Now we have 30 great employees, myself and my 24 year old son.
UPDATE, 5/29/10
Big changes here at Ruffstuff on our Heim Joints! We have been doing some research and testing for the last 10 months and have come up with something very interesting! What we have discovered should have been very well known but seems to have been overlooked by the industry.
Everyone knows the benefit of Heat Treating and of course all of our heims are HT, its only common sense. Most of you know about Cryogenic Treating of metals after HT also, something that shouldn't be overlooked as we subject things to greater and greater stresses.
What has been overlooked are the benefits of Cryogenic Treating to other materials. I am talking about Plastics, Nylons, & Teflons, the very materials our Heim Joint bearing liners are made from. The realignment at the molecular level of the material smoothes the surface and improves density allowing for a much longer bearing life. 10 Months is not 5 years and we don't have a machine to put something through 20 million cycles but we have recorded less than 1/2 the wear in the test group in favor of the Cryo treated. That would indicate 50-100% longer lifespan of the joints that have been cryogenically treated.
With our limited testing ability I am going to have to side with the scientists opinion. I won't cite research sources, you all have Google too so you can do the same search and see for yourself!
The benefits are many and we simply haven't found anything detrimental from the process. The Cryogenic process also makes the HT Rod End AND Ball harder from further martensite conversion (Talk to the scientists). This process increases the ultimate radial static load 8-15% but we will not make any claims of further strength we cannot afford to prove but you can safely assume a 78,000lb RSL heim gains 3-5,000lbs in RSL.
This is the first product we have sold that hasn't been made by us, now they are made to our specs by one of the best manufactureres in the world. And by the end of next week all of our Heim Joints will be both Heat Treated & Cryogenically Treated!
http://www.ruffstuffspecialties.com/catalog/RODENDS.html
. i have the old style 1-1/4 heims on the arms and have been beating on them for almost a year. 5 hammers trips and several other wheeling trips later, these look and feel EXACTLY the same as the day they were installed. they show zero signs of wear. keep in mind these are not the new and improved heat treated / cryo'ed heims that will last even longer. i also have less than desirable separation which puts added stress on the heims. i really expected to see some acceptable wear on these things but there is none.
