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I've never had this bar out for a look, is it really so simple it can be
home made? I think there are several problems to making one yourself. I do
think you'd need a high strength steel, if there is any torsion in particular,
it will need to flex elastically repeatedly. How strong an alloy depending on
the max. torsion applied by the trailing arms, and then some safety factor.
Then you'll need to machining the ends to accommodate the notch/threads/bearing?
and make them square and true to each other. Also, no surface defects allowed
or it will fail due to fatigue at that spot. Do you really need to re-engineer
this thing, sounds like a wrecking yard part to me. If you do go through with
this, don't copy the set screw design, as this sounds like the root cause of
failure (that, or too frequent maintenance required to keep it tight).
Peter Parker
'66 Square; Phillip
Portland, OR
Dave Hall wrote:
> > Also, what steel would you recommend to use for this purpose ? Engineers ?
> >
>
> It needs to be some grade of spring steel.
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