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Ive been debating on taking a cast of these douglass 11" wheels (with their permission of course) and creating a titanium alloy/carbon fiber wheel. Of course this is just a trial and error type thing, but with many of the machining shops in the stl and chicago area standing idle ..and my experience with CAd ... and g/f a mechanical engineer ... i think its truly possible to make something that might work... i have no idea....
its cold outside ..and with a previous broken neck (titanium alloy right on my cervical spine) i have plenty of time to dick around...
i figure if titanium is indeed strong and very light ..and is good enough for my neck ... should be good enough for a wheel ... if not tungsten would be my next metal of choice to brace the carbon fiber ...
I dunno ... i just think very very deeply while taking xanax to relax my neck muscles enough to try and sleep.
Im not a great "creator" of things , but I've always excelled at making things better. Maybe us guys could get a think tank together to come up wth some kick ass stuff ... hand made ...and possibly manufactured later and market it through this website.... kinda like "created for atv riders by atv riders" where everyone has a say and an opinion on what is created.... and shit we wouldn't have to give it to some arrogant factory rider to test.... we could go put it through hell all across the country in every imaginable environment in a few days .. not weeks and years.
At the end of the day ... sport atv riders want to be noticed ... they want shit to work ... they expect to work and depend on it ...and IT MUST LOOK GOOD.
shit ..carbon fiber would work great sandwiched with tungsten would make a great engine block... even if it was just the sleeve or the underside of a piston... a tungsten/titanium chain would never stretch ... a sprocket machined from titanium with hardened tunsten teeth would never wear out... see what im getting at about the think tank.
lastly ..i dunno why tungsten hasnt been used in more things ... maybe its expensive? I do know something machined from forged metal is much better/stronger/lighter than something cast in a sand mold.
i think you could theoretically make an entire fuel injection/intake/ and maybe even drive shafts with reinforced carbon fiber... haha maybe i just need to sleep.
its cold outside ..and with a previous broken neck (titanium alloy right on my cervical spine) i have plenty of time to dick around...
i figure if titanium is indeed strong and very light ..and is good enough for my neck ... should be good enough for a wheel ... if not tungsten would be my next metal of choice to brace the carbon fiber ...
I dunno ... i just think very very deeply while taking xanax to relax my neck muscles enough to try and sleep.
Im not a great "creator" of things , but I've always excelled at making things better. Maybe us guys could get a think tank together to come up wth some kick ass stuff ... hand made ...and possibly manufactured later and market it through this website.... kinda like "created for atv riders by atv riders" where everyone has a say and an opinion on what is created.... and shit we wouldn't have to give it to some arrogant factory rider to test.... we could go put it through hell all across the country in every imaginable environment in a few days .. not weeks and years.
At the end of the day ... sport atv riders want to be noticed ... they want shit to work ... they expect to work and depend on it ...and IT MUST LOOK GOOD.
shit ..carbon fiber would work great sandwiched with tungsten would make a great engine block... even if it was just the sleeve or the underside of a piston... a tungsten/titanium chain would never stretch ... a sprocket machined from titanium with hardened tunsten teeth would never wear out... see what im getting at about the think tank.
lastly ..i dunno why tungsten hasnt been used in more things ... maybe its expensive? I do know something machined from forged metal is much better/stronger/lighter than something cast in a sand mold.
i think you could theoretically make an entire fuel injection/intake/ and maybe even drive shafts with reinforced carbon fiber... haha maybe i just need to sleep.