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Thread: EN24 Heat Treatment
15/07/2015 16:11:35

Thanks for the information about the steels.

How does this sound:

I will check for marine U-bolts again, I have already checked but it is to go around the seat stays of my mountain bike to fit some stabilisers, they need to be a particular size to replace the ones that broke before I applied hardly any torque. The original set were very weak.

The U-bolts are 6mm diameter.

I was going to use EN24 or EN26 and get them Parco-luberized so they are coated black, they will be rubber coated black over the contact section.

I may try making them from EN24, with no heat treatment to minimise cost.

I can see if I can tighten this up without it breaking, using off the shelf nyloc nuts,

Or can I make this from EN24T. What is this like to bend? The U-bolts are about 35mm wide and 75mm high.

14/07/2015 21:30:01

Hi Modellers,

I am sorry to post on this excellent forum but it seemed to be the only useful one!

I want to make some U shaped bolts for a bicycle project I am doing. I was originally advised to make them from S155 Stainless Steel, then I thought they might be strong enough in a high alloyed steel like EN24 or EN26, initially in the annealed condition for turning, rolling threads on, and bending, then heat treated to the Z specification.

Do you think this should be cheaper than S155 too?

Some of your model stuff is very impressive.

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