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Twin stick levers
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 9:35 am
by St Jimmy
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
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 9:47 am
by flyinwall
aluminum is softer than steel and will wear/bend quicker
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 10:17 am
by david123
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.
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 6:48 pm
by St Jimmy
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
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 7:02 pm
by ajsr
where did you get the ones you bought James?
what didn't you like about them?
cheers andrew
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 7:27 pm
by St Jimmy
We had a group buy, about 12 mths maybe longer i will take some photo's and post them up .
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 1:03 pm
by GRPABT1
I'd like to see the photos because I was very happy with my evil twin sticks parts.
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 1:38 pm
by St Jimmy
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 2:19 pm
by david123
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.
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 7:57 pm
by PJ.zook
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?
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 8:12 pm
by MART
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.
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 8:20 pm
by St Jimmy
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.
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 8:29 pm
by MART
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.
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 8:32 pm
by St Jimmy
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.
