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kawboy:

--- Quote from: Motorrad on March 09, 2011, 02:41:27 PM ---I have a thin piece of STAINLESS STEEL. rivited (with stainless rivits). to the subframe..

Looks pretty, doesnt rust.  and protects the subframe.. as one nice property of stainless, the more you rub on it, the harder it gets...
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:-o :-o

martinfan30:
I wanted to avoid riveting a piece to the sub frame, so I had a piece of aluminum welded into the subframe.  A little more strength, just wondered what ya'll think of the clearance between the chain and the thicker piece of sub frame..

Motorrad:

--- Quote from: martinfan30 on March 09, 2011, 03:31:41 PM ---I wanted to avoid riveting a piece to the sub frame, so I had a piece of aluminum welded into the subframe.  A little more strength, just wondered what ya'll think of the clearance between the chain and the thicker piece of sub frame..

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I tried alum before I went to stainless...  In one H&H race I wore through it and the subframe, and could see inside the subframe...   Keep an eye on it

martinfan30:
d**n this sucks. I want to powder coat it, but I know d**n well whatever I do it's going to eat through.....

2-Stroke Tom:
martinfan30, check out this post of the subframe mod I posted a while back: http://www.kxriders.com/forums/index.php/topic,7384.msg56415.html#msg56415

Stainless steel is the best thing to use for this application.

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