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12-18-2006, 06:53 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Juneau Alaska
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|  Electric suspention
Yup you read the title right Electric Suspention. It is another one of my off the wall ideas. It is made of Muscle Wire. If you dont know what it is here is a link with a little more information. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_wire. Basicly you add electricity to it eaither expands or contracts. To use it in supention it could be made as a swaybar, links. As coil springs it could be usded to compress the suspention or extend it as needed. In a sway bar setup..................well you get the idea. So what do you think? What uses can you get from this idea? Steve  |
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12-18-2006, 07:14 AM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Vegas
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How much electricity will it take? Is it worth the added weight of batteries?
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12-18-2006, 08:12 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Southern Maryland
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The muscle wire I have runs off of a watch battery.
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12-18-2006, 09:02 AM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: South Charleston
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Sounds like it could be useful, would like to see a vid of it
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12-18-2006, 09:57 AM
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| Powered by Awesome   Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Parker, Colorado
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doesnt sound cheap... but, of coarse, nothin in this hobby is.
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12-19-2006, 02:45 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: northampton
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really sounds like if it could be made to work within reason it'd be great. I'll have to play with it a little also
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12-23-2006, 06:13 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Norway
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I've seen, and tested some specimens of titanium alloys of the memory type. As for now these alloys works as a ordinary mild steel bar, in room temperature, that you can bend and the bar will keep the shape you bend it to. When you heat up the bended bar it will regain its memorised shape, if made as a bar originally the bends will straighten out. As for use in a suspension system i cant see the benefit of using memory alloys. I think they have less "springy" capacity than ordinary spring metals. If you can take advantage of a stored configuration of the metal, you will need to heat the metal to make it change shape, and this is not a fast nor a very powerfull respons when its regaining its original shape. Sorry to be doubtful, but I'd like to see some more consepts of how to take advantage of this quite amazing abilities in these titanium alloys. Perry |
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12-24-2006, 08:44 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: everett
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what kind of exspantion could you get out of it if you made a coil spring out of it?
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