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Originally Posted by martin417
OK, I see what your problem is, and I have a solution that I guarantee will work. Go to your local psychiatric hospital, and have yourself committed to the suicide prevention ward. With a few years of intensive therapy, and probably lots of drugs, maybe a few electroshock treatments, I am confidant that they can expunge your death-wish. Otherwise, why not fling yourself in front of a train, it would be faster.  |
Yeah, it's an intense sport. We love it though... It's the rush of flying over the pavement, ripping out pendulum slides to control speed, and drifting around corners.
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Originally Posted by Brandon Holley
While I'm not inclined to recommend a specific steel, there are a couple thoughts I had:
1. These are going to be used on the road/street. If corrosion is going to be a possible problem, you may want to think stainless.
2. There are a HUGE range of heat treated steels, but generally what you are doing is hardening the steel. The harder the steel, the more brittle. Be careful if going for a heat treated variety. In an application like a longboard, I would imagine you would want the axle in a failure to bend, not shatter and break. (The point here being heat treated does not necessarily mean "better" or "stronger")
Those were just a couple quick thoughts I had.
-Brando
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Hm. Good call on the stainless. I'll add that to my list of qualifications.
As for the hardened part, the board won't be dealing with sudden impact, just intense load for a sustained amount of time, with the load changing based on turns or straight lines.