I'm looking around for a place to pick up some strips of high strength alloy for fabrication of fender braces, underbody reinforcement, skidplates, swords, whatever. Ideally some kind of titanium alloy or aerospace aluminum. I sound so cool and smart saying that word... aerospace....

anyhow, thanks in advance for your help, I remember there were some I-clubbers running around with some insane metals, just wondering where you sourced 'em from.

 

6061 aluminum should be fine, its readily available at any metals supplier

but dont call it "aerospace" aluminum, youll sound like a poser metals n00b

 

haha you're absolutely right about the aerospace thing, I just saw it somewhere and thought it sounded cool.

I figured the 6061 aluminum would be fine. Alan steel at whipple and 101 should have loads of it, I was just checking to see if anybody had any other sources.

 

7075 is often reffered to as "aircraft grade aluminum" which is much stonger than 6061. Maybe that is where you are coming up with "aerospace"

 

I thought the "aircraft grade" stuff was the 6061, didn't realize it was actually 7075.

Would it be worth the extra cost to use 7075 to fabricate braces? My initial guess is that it would. Especially considering that a pre-made fender brace set is 100-140$

 

I would look at the different stress levels vs where they are going vs what is the cost difference between the two. 7075 is true "aircraft grade".

there is a chart here

http://www.novarcproducts.com/7075.html

 

I've looked into this a bit and then found this. The labor and material would be more.

http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/show....php?t=1111943