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Aluminum Frame Heat Treating

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umberto:
Does anyone know a place to send your aluminum frame for heat treating?  I tried a bike place, but they weren’t interested in doing a dirt bike’s frame.

Regtech:
I work in aerospace and HT a lot of aluminum. What condition requires you to HT? New to the whole K5 party so... just curious

Brute:
I would guess he wants to relieve stresses in the frame and welds. Not really 'heat treating', more 'normalizing' but pretty much the same basic process. I would not think you would want an aluminum frame 'too' hard to allow it to flex some?

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