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Originally Posted by Hachiban VIII
If you are going to use cantilevered wheels with such a system I would suggest that you weld your dead axels to a large metal plate and then bolt this plate to the fiberglass. Otherwise you will be concentrating a large force on a piece of material that is only 1/8" thick  I would be worried about an axel tearing out.
Another obvious solution to this problem would be to use a thin sheet of fiberglass to support the outer side of each axel. This would also give you a place to mount the bumpers. |
The c-channel is 1/4" thick, and we are going to use 1-1/16" flange nuts to mount the axles. Also, the wheel is pretty close to the c-channel, so there isn't a huge load on the axle.