Twin stick levers

Post by **St Jimmy** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 9:35 am

Is there any reason why, i cannot make my twinstick levers out of aluminum. As the ones i bought seem a bit dodgy. and i have a bit of aluminum bar laying around.
regards
james

Post by **flyinwall** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 9:47 am

aluminum is softer than steel and will wear/bend quicker

Post by **david123** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 10:17 am

James,

Pure aluminium, no, too soft, but, some of the aluminium are very hard and very good/light.

Any magnesium/aluminium alloy would be just the ticket

Do you know what you have.

Post by **St Jimmy** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 6:48 pm

david123 wrote:James,

Pure aluminium, no, too soft, but, some of the aluminium are very hard and very good/light.

Any magnesium/aluminium alloy would be just the ticket

Do you know what you have.

No mate i just know that it hardened rod .Bought it for a mates boat,and have some left over

Post by **ajsr** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 7:02 pm

where did you get the ones you bought James?
what didn't you like about them?
cheers andrew

Post by **St Jimmy** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 7:27 pm

We had a group buy, about 12 mths maybe longer i will take some photo's and post them up .

Post by **GRPABT1** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 1:03 pm

I'd like to see the photos because I was very happy with my evil twin sticks parts.

Post by **St Jimmy** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 1:38 pm

They are not evil twin sticks. I don't know who makes them

Post by **david123** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 2:19 pm

mate,

Take your ally to a machinist, he will be able to tell you the grade you have, speak to him and he will be able to say ya or na, im not up on how to tell ally grades, but with steel, hit it with a grinder and check out the spark colours, there must be a similar method for ally.

I have never seen twin sticks, but they do look fairly slight in build, you would need quite a high magnesium content for the strength I think.

marine grade is Series 5000, good stuff, but I don't think strong enuf.

Post by **PJ.zook** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 7:57 pm

I doubt that aluminium would be up to the task as there is a lot of leverage involved, especially if say you need to shift for some reason on a hill with the driveline loaded up.

So what was wrong with the old ones?

Post by **MART** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 8:12 pm

Whats wrong with them , they just need to be bent to work correctly , mine is/were the same , if you need them bent , get some one to do it for you or you must know someone with a oxy or press who could help out , they should work fine , Cheers Paul.

Post by **St Jimmy** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 8:20 pm

MART wrote:Whats wrong with them , they just need to be bent to work correctly , mine is/were the same , if you need them bent , get some one to do it for you or you must know someone with a oxy or press who could help out , they should work fine , Cheers Paul.

They are bent, but i not sure if there bent enough.

Post by **MART** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 8:29 pm

Does you original shifter select gears properly , and are there any issues with the transfer case , like are the detent balls on each side of the shift sliders in and the springs ok , and the middle detent ball missing , Cheers Paul.

Post by **St Jimmy** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 8:32 pm

MART wrote:Does you original shifter select gears properly , and are there any issues with the transfer case , like are the detent balls on each side of the shift sliders in and the springs ok , and the middle detent ball missing , Cheers Paul.

I'm getting new springs this week,to see if that fixes the problem.

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