Thread: Type of Aluminum used in kit frame
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Re: Type of Aluminum used in kit frame
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Originally Posted by Rick TYler
The aluminum at our local home center is 1100. I'm surprised to hear your characterization of 6061 T6, which has a reputation as being easily welded (for aluminum) and is fairly strong and resiliant. The frame on my Cannondale road bike, for example, is 6061 T6. 5000-series alloys are harder, but more prone to cracking. (This pretty much exhausts my aluminum alloy knowledge. IAN a metallurgist.)
I believe he was trying to say that whatever series Al his local hardware store carries isn't machineable/weldable, unlike 6061.
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