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Thread: 1mm titainium cutting and bending

  1. #11
    25mm titanium bar, drilled out..it sits in a bronze bush in the bulkhead and just runs in some steel tube which is welded into the steel work on the flipper arm.

    20mm plate was way ott- but was cool. 12mm would probably do you.

    the most important part is the arm, if your having an arm with a bend in it- try to design it with a tension bar going from the pivot to the tip.. otherwise the arm will try to straighten itself out when it fires without load on.. doesnt have to be much.. turbs is just some 12mm high tensile tube.

  2. #12
    Cheers Dave
    thats most of the flipper sorted,
    have you used hardox/ti at the end of the flipper
    so it can easily be changed when bent up or is it
    all the same material ?

  3. #13
    the whole nose is welded hardox. the original plan was to have a removeable plate that could be bolted on and sharpened or fixed and put back on.. realised its more robust to have it all solid at the tip and when its blunt to just weld the tip up with hard facing rods and sharpen it again. Both turbulences tips were hardox plates welded to the box section with bits covering the ends- reinforcing it, and at the same time not allowing things to get under the side of the flipper front.. keep the welds as beefy as possible and dont grind them down underneath, but keep the front as smooth as possible.

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