kafer brace question?

[flat]

27mm OD, 3.5mm wall. Aluminum because of weight, and if installed correctly all the forces are axial along the tube, so it's plenty strong. The thick wall allows cutting a thread directly into the tube without any tube adaptors.

If you made it out of steel, you could go alot thinner on the wall thickness. Maybe 1" OD with .065 wall, but you'd have to weld in tube adaptors for the thread:

http://chassisengineering.com/shopDe...ProductId=1572

Hope that helps,
Lanner

[mccarthy500]

thanks for the reply Lanner. i have ordered some clevises both left and right hand threaded. as well as some 1'' o.d. .25''wall 6061 t6 aluminum that im going to tap to 5/8th -18. from what i have seen i think it will be strong enough.