[help] Working with bike materials - Page 2

 

sean_q_ wrote:


I don't have any specific help, other than joining this
Triumph site to find parts and advice.

http://www.triumphrat.net/

 



As I said previously, this is a naive idea.

The muffler clamps you're talking about were designed to be loaded in
a vertical plane and you're talking about changing the plane of
loading from a hanging load to a cantilever load.

The clamps will probably crack from supporting a cantilever load.

Furthermore, chroming the mild steel that the brackets were made of
results in hydrogen embrittlement.

That's what happens when hydrogen gas bubbles infiltrate tiny cracks
in the steel being chrome plated.

To avoid breakage after chrome plating, aftermarket companies who give
a shit will bake the hydrogen out of the parts in an oven, or they
will store the parts on the shelf for months before selling them.

Last of all, there is a problem with hole diameter versus edge
distance.

There should be a minimum of half a hole of steel between the edge of
the material and any hole you drill in it.

A muffler clamp that was designed to be loaded vertically probably has
more than half a hole diameter of material between the edge of the
hole and the end of the muffler clamp.

Any additional holes you would drill in the muffler clamps would have
to meet the edge distance rule cited above to avoid cracking for that
reason.