FW bar materials

**mattsdragons** · 11th May 2012, 20:06

evening all

How does a small bar (only 30ish cm long) made out of 10mm t6 ali with 4mm hardox teeth on the end sound?

If not any good, what would you recommend?

**typhoon_driver** · 11th May 2012, 20:10

the ali would buckle. Make it from a single piece of hardox or stainless steel. Job done.

**Anttazz** · 11th May 2012, 20:11

It'll sound different depending on what you hit it with,

Personally I would recommend a musical instrument for sound, thats what they're designed for :wink:

**mattsdragons** · 11th May 2012, 20:12

bloody hell, 10mm t6 ali and would still buckle?

what about the 4mm hardox teeth idea though? connected to a stainless bar?

**typhoon_driver** · 11th May 2012, 20:36

yes it would especially if it hit something at an angle such as a flipper.

Don't bother putting insert teeth in unless you are doing a sam smith and machining the bejesus out of them to adequately support them. Keep it simple stupid, bit piece of steel, single piece, spun up really fast. Little to go wrong.

**mattsdragons** · 11th May 2012, 20:51

Any good places to get enough material to machine a bar with half descent teeth?

**mattsdragons** · 12th May 2012, 08:26

how does 10mm stainless bar sound?

**typhoon_driver** · 12th May 2012, 08:45

DDDDIIIINNNNNGGGGGG

**mattsdragons** · 12th May 2012, 09:03

perfect, will start to compile parts together

hope to go for 3mm ti and some kind of plastic armour, maybe 8mm hdpe or 5mm polycarb, hope to mix in some 10mm poly if I can, but weight will be tight