|
|
|
|
| Author |
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: NorCal, Vacaville
Posts: 3,929
|
Just so you know how detailed i am,,,,
my washers are all Ti now also.
ha! and to think i had heavy wheels once. Its not Brad's fault, but i will blame hime anyway. 
__________________
Except for a few cases the murderCycle rate is relatively low on this board, keep up the good numbers. |
||
12-20-2005, 02:31 PM
|
|
|
Living on borrowed time!
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Tacoma, WA, USA
Posts: 7,020
|
Now if you were REALLY REALLY cool, all your fastners would be BERYLLIUM!!!!!...titanium...how pedestrian!
__________________
Better a has-been than a wanna-be 'I am John Andrew Moffett of the Clan Moffat and by god I live, love, seek, fail, grieve and die as I so choose and I call no man master save me'. |
||
|
12-20-2005, 02:48 PM
|
|
|
Edministrator
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: SF east bay
Posts: 24,827
|
"Transparent aluminum, laddie. Transparent aluminum. You'd be blingin into the 24th century."
__________________
Good post? Leave a tip! O - $1 O - $2 O - $3 |
||
|
12-20-2005, 03:11 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Camanche, Iowa
Posts: 3,703
|
JonyRR:
You can keep all the Beryllium you want. Since it's a proven cause of leukemia, I don't want to have anything to do with the stuff. To that end there is a BeryliCo spanner wrench sitting on the bottom of the mid-Atlantic care of you-know-who, dumped off SSBN 655 around 1978. Noncorrosive, so it's probably still there, pristine and deadly as ever.
__________________
'99 Black SA "OBSSSN" - gone but not forgotten. Not all good technology is new, not all new technology is good. .........Purple is Satire......... |
||
|
12-20-2005, 03:59 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: S. Fla
Posts: 556
|
Beryllium won't harm you unless you grind or cut it and come into contact with the dust. You can handle the wrenches all day any you'll be find.
Did a bunch of tank work when I was a junior pipe fitter. Spark free is a good thing when your in a tank that used to hold gasoline.
__________________
Sometimes you just gotta! 02 1100SBX, 00 VFR 800, 99 540i-6, 94 1100RS, 91 Guzzi LeMans 1000, 85 K100RS turbo, 78 R100S, 53 Panhead |
||
|
12-20-2005, 04:14 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: melbourne, victoria, australia
Posts: 801
|
titanium is so last centrury.
__________________
'89 851 '97 600m '65 Hunnybunny '05 Little man |
||
|
12-20-2005, 04:32 PM
|
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Camanche, Iowa
Posts: 3,703
|
shovelstrokeed:
Not what I heard. I seem to remember that the aerospace industry used to have all manner of nonmagnetic, nonsparking berylium-copper screwdrivers and wrenches, then a bunch of people got cancer and the tools disappeared. Something about skin acids leaching out the berylium and letting it pass through the skin into the blood stream. Personally, I'm not going to take the risk. Aluminum-copper is not as light, but it does the other stuff just as well and doesn't cost a bucket of money.
__________________
'99 Black SA "OBSSSN" - gone but not forgotten. Not all good technology is new, not all new technology is good. .........Purple is Satire......... |
||
|
12-20-2005, 04:34 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posts: 438
|
I'm thinking of having my bike frame and fasteners all made from Nitinol. That way, if I ever have another git off, I can just take the bike, and a nice warm torch to it, and it'll all go back to its original shape. what do you guys think?
-arbi
__________________
**************** 2004 R1100S-BCP - RIP (2-1-04) 2004 R1150R Rockster; NASA approved |
||
|
12-20-2005, 05:20 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: NorCal, Vacaville
Posts: 3,929
|
sounds like we need to consider this Nitinol stuff as a searious option.
__________________
Except for a few cases the murderCycle rate is relatively low on this board, keep up the good numbers. |
||
|
12-20-2005, 07:53 PM
|
|
|
Registered
|
Re: Just so you know how detailed i am,,,,
Quote:
your logic sounds uncomfortably familiar.
__________________
'04 R1100s. I changed a couple o' things. |
||
|
12-21-2005, 05:40 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: NorCal, Vacaville
Posts: 3,929
|
snick snick,,,,
__________________
Except for a few cases the murderCycle rate is relatively low on this board, keep up the good numbers. |
||
|
12-21-2005, 05:42 AM
|
|
|
Barback King
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Now it's Nevada
Posts: 12,032
|
Nitinol ??? That's like some kinda sleeping pill ain't it?...
__________________
R11S CNC BARBACKS |
||
|
12-21-2005, 07:23 AM
|
|
|
Living on borrowed time!
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Tacoma, WA, USA
Posts: 7,020
|
Yes, Moybin, I WAS being a
Berylliosis is the technical term for beryllium poisioning due to ingestion via osmosis or inhalation. Supposedly, prolonged fondling of same DOES result in the condition, as does even minute inhalation of dust. Light and stiff, though. I always wondered why they didn't powdercoat the raw pieces (anodizing don't workee so good). Some things are much more possible than practical. LIke getting serious horsepower out of a 259-series BMW oilhead engine *grin*. And yes, an R1100S ALREADY has enough power to get one into trouble or killed...but too much is almost enough. (add nitromethane
__________________
Better a has-been than a wanna-be 'I am John Andrew Moffett of the Clan Moffat and by god I live, love, seek, fail, grieve and die as I so choose and I call no man master save me'. |
||
|
12-21-2005, 07:30 AM
|
|
|
Living on borrowed time!
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Tacoma, WA, USA
Posts: 7,020
|
to taste; minimum 6FLOZ per US gallon...hehehe)
__________________
Better a has-been than a wanna-be 'I am John Andrew Moffett of the Clan Moffat and by god I live, love, seek, fail, grieve and die as I so choose and I call no man master save me'. |
||
|
12-21-2005, 07:35 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Rockford, Il USA
Posts: 483
|
ACID, tell me, where to get the TI washers?
|
||
|
12-21-2005, 10:43 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Home Of Elvis (Memphis,Tn.)
Posts: 505
|
I use unatamiun material.
|
||
|
12-21-2005, 12:41 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: NorCal, Vacaville
Posts: 3,929
|
Quote:
Let me give you a hand on this email me if you want lots. acidburn3333@yahoo.com
__________________
Except for a few cases the murderCycle rate is relatively low on this board, keep up the good numbers. |
||
|
12-21-2005, 01:07 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Camanche, Iowa
Posts: 3,703
|
Quote:
JonyRR: did you get my email? Seems the bicycle folks are already doing that.
__________________
'99 Black SA "OBSSSN" - gone but not forgotten. Not all good technology is new, not all new technology is good. .........Purple is Satire......... |
||
|
12-21-2005, 03:29 PM
|
|
|
No Info on (t)his member
|
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Moybin
[B]Heard of unobtainium. What's unatamiun? It's one of those diplomas you get from the back of matchbook covers... |
||
|
12-21-2005, 05:10 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: NWNJ
Posts: 6,202
|
Quote:
group buy anyone?
__________________
big blue tricycle stare down the darkness and watch it fade |
||
|
12-21-2005, 05:20 PM
|
|
R1100S
