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Steering - Has anyone?

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robbie:
sound like it will have the same effect as putting a larger tube around the orignal one, I guess anything to strengthen it, I just wish we had done somehting on the 90 before we bent it last month!!!!

Range Rover Blues:
Obviously it will have some effect but it'as a lot of weight for little gain.  The reason tube is used in the first place is that all the stress is carried by the 'skin' of the bar, soo metal on the inside does almost nothing.  To make it stiffer you could use as much metal in a thinner walled tube with larger diameter.  It's called the moment of area and in the direction of stress the strength is roughly proportional to the cube of the diameter.

Bulli:
Come on the RRB what do you do for a living??
At the cost from qt for a heavy duty one you may just want to order one...about 35 quid if memory serves me correctly. I cant see the point in spending ages fabricating something that may or not work correctly.

thermidorthelobster:
The stuff they use on building sites with the u on the end will bend and rust (they're made of iron), so best look elsewhere I reckon.

Range Rover Blues:

--- Quote from: "Bulli" ---Come on the RRB what do you do for a living??

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I'll give you a clue, It would be Mr Blues B.Eng DSA ADI :wink:

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