Metal Versus Plastic Axle's?

[coffeeaddict17]

I have metal axles on multiple rigs, and while they look cool, and provide additional weight, my issue is the cost. If you bend a VP housing, its 129$ for just the housing. If you break the housing on an AR44 its a mere 12 bucks. I also prefer plastic housings because there are far more weight tuning options. My VP axles had to be outfitted with SSD knuckles and weights because thats about all I could do. Plastic allows me to call up our lovely friends at beef tubes and gives me various options of materials, and weight options.

[durok]

Delrin is extremely slippery, but as far as using what's commonly available - I prefer beef tubes inside plastic axles for most situations, although I do have a set of SSD Diamond Bomber axles waiting to be installed in a rig that will use their Delrin pumpkin skids:

[sherbs]

Originally Posted by rockhugger

Delrin FTW

I have used a lot of Delrin machined parts on my carpet cars, very durable, I would think it would be a good metal substitute for axle housings.