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Re: Side Project Questions: What Steel?
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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