[TheForge] tempering aluminum

[Mike Porter]

JRF
If you cannot get the answer here, try on Castinghobby or Hobbicast (both 
yahoo newsgroups). While there you may also decide on a much simpler plan 
for constructing your part :)
Mike P.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Justin Fellenz" <sunironworks at yahoo.com>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 6:24 AM
Subject: [TheForge] tempering aluminum


> Does anyone know about how to re-temper aluminum? I know very little about 
> how aluminum works beyond how to anneal it to make it soft and to forge 
> when hardwood leaves a skidmark. But I was thinking about whether it would 
> be possible to build a motorcycle swingarm (I'm thinking a swoopy 
> single-sided job) by hammerforming a three-sided shape hot and then 
> welding in internal bracing and the fourht side to make a box. But then it 
> would  be annealed, and I suspect that it should be a good springy temper. 
> T-6 seems to be the common one.
>
>  Really airing out my ignorance here, but none of my books have anything 
> on this.
>
>  Thanks,
>
>  JRF
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