I used just the bottom caps, ground them down to about 3/16, enough meat so not to distort when they wre welded to the flatbar...Originally posted by OPP'S:
<STRONG>Nice looking arms, how much of the stock arms did you use?</STRONG>
Ya ya ya, I had to boot everyone else out of my shop so i had time to buld em!!!!Originally posted by Whizzy:
<STRONG>All I can say is "ITS ABOUT FRIGGIN TIME"
Geez. I was there a month ago listening to you whine about it. <IMG SRC="smilies/thefinger.gif" border="0">
Looks good Crash. Realllllllllllllly good.
Of course you took my advice on a duplicate set right?</STRONG>
Originally posted by crash:
<STRONG>Hey dave, you have any brighter pics of those arms?? Wanna see how you did it, can't tell, too dark and I have no way of editing that photo here at work...</STRONG>
Good points, but I see no reason to, thick and look at how the leverage is aplied, at least on mine. Its also mild steel, so I can't imagine fractures in the metal or the welds.. Heck, look at a stcok arm....Originally posted by ROKTOY:
<STRONG>How about shock loading or fatique flex stressing?
I'm no metals guy.....just curious about possible failure modes.
I am a failure analyst ;-)
Jay</STRONG>