What is mercurius tensor tubing?
06-19-21, 10:33 AM
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The dimples on the tubing makes it a double "Freddy" spec.....
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06-19-21, 10:39 AM
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I’ve never heard of it, but in my opinion squashing the tubes like that would weaken them. Nothing is stronger than good quality round tubing. To be honest though, all steel has similar characteristics all dimensions being the same. You could make a frame from straight gauge high tensile steel, and straight gauge 531, or stainless and they’d all have “similar” ride characteristics if the thicknesses of the tube walls etc were all basically the same.
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Three-way tailgates.....now pick up trucks have split gates that can do the normal drop down, or open half, as a back door. With the loads we regularly subjected old school single function gates to, on the job sites, I can foresee the new multi-function models breaking and dropping things on feet. Steel-toe boots only do so much
But then, they also regularly broke the cable style limiters with what ever could be piled on the back of a truck.Back to tubing decals and metallurgy classes.
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wrt to Mercury Meteor & Comet -
[how many can recall that silly series of adverts for the Comet about a "Mr. Halley" who loved his Comet so much he couldn't stop driving it long enough for a meal and his wife had to pass him his meals as he slowed down in front of the house?
]experience as pilot of a Comet -
the family o' me best friend in high school had one. we both ended up going to the same university. after our freshman year we took the car on a camping trip from southern California to northern Montana.
going through southern and central Montana it seemed like every few hundred meters there was an enamelled steel sign affixed to a fencepost proclaiming the virtues of "Eddie's Bread." after seeing what seemed like a couple hundred of these we decided we should pinch one as a souvenier. the next one we saw i pulled the car off onto the shoulder. BIG MISTAKE! the shoulder was soft and the Comet immediately listed to starboard about what seemed like thirty degrees and felt like it was at risk for going on over...and a loooooog way dooooooown.
we were able to scramble out and a few minutes later a big fourwheel drive pickup came along and pulled the car to safety. no Eddie's Bread sign. just think, if the car had gone over you would not have had to read all of these posts from me... -----
