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Maintenance & Technical => KX500 Aluminum Frame Conversion (AFC) => Topic started by: umberto on February 26, 2018, 03:20:58 PM

Title: Aluminum Frame Heat Treating
Post by: umberto on February 26, 2018, 03:20:58 PM

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.

Title: Re: Aluminum Frame Heat Treating
Post by: Regtech on July 19, 2019, 12:46:21 AM

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

Title: Re: Aluminum Frame Heat Treating
Post by: Brute on July 20, 2019, 07:37:27 AM

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?