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Old Sep 25, 2009 | 11:11 AM
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Originally Posted by ptrhahn
This seems like something there'd be demand for... I'd be interested, but the strength concerns are a big deterent, especially at those prices.

It'd be nice to see an alternative that also addressed the flexing that causes brake pad knockback as well. THEN you'd really have something.

That is the part I'd be most interested in. Even though it doesn't seem to happen anymore on my car after I've refreshed all of those parts and with the RB BBK.

I need to check with a local guy that has CAD/CAM stuff to see if he has some kind of scanner to scan a stock spindle. Once its digitized, it can't be that hard for a computer controlled machine to reproduce.
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Old Sep 25, 2009 | 01:26 PM
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I know Pettit used to have a center-lock hub conversion (which would be the coolest thing ever), I wonder if that entailed new carriers.
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Old Sep 26, 2009 | 03:20 PM
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Originally Posted by s1mpsons
Holy Crap! $1276.47!!!!! More expensive then I was expecting. If I buy these I am going to make a mold and get them produced and sold here.
Dunno about everyone else, but cast spindles doesn't seem a good idea.
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Old Sep 26, 2009 | 04:15 PM
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Originally Posted by jkstill
Dunno about everyone else, but cast spindles doesn't seem a good idea.
And just how do you think the stock parts are made then? They sure look cast to me.
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Old Sep 26, 2009 | 04:16 PM
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I'm pretty sure the factory hub carriers are cast.
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Old Sep 26, 2009 | 04:38 PM
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Ok, forged titanium then. Haha. I wasn't too serious about this anyway.
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Old Sep 26, 2009 | 06:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Black91n/a
And just how do you think the stock parts are made then? They sure look cast to me.
Thanks for the helpful comment.
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Old Sep 26, 2009 | 07:15 PM
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If you were going to do it, a sheet steel fabrication, new hubs and larger bearings/stubs would be on my wishlist. Those Japanese front ones appear to have some electric gluing done - hopefully some post weld treatment done if they incorporate any of the stock upright.
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