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- From: EPLUS17@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu (Richard Engelbrecht-Wiggans)
- Subject: Re: Phil Wood hubs
- References: <1992Dec23.163558.7028@enterprise.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com> <Bzrsy7.L9I@news.water.ca.gov> <1992Dec25.070007.21338@csi.uottawa.ca> <1992Dec26.224324.8712@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 02:55:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec26.224324.8712@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
- pardo@cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) writes:
-
- >>stevec@water.ca.gov writes:
- >>>[Solid axles are heavier but stronger.]
- >
- >kiisaka@csi.uottawa.ca (Ken Iisaka (the mad pianist)) writes:
- >>[The QR skewer fills the hollow axle hole, and the nuts are about the
- >> same weight as the QR. Probably a few grams lighter. And the material
- >> in the center of a solid axle doesn't help the axle resist bends.]
- >
- >The bolt-on axles used by Phil Wood and Bullseye are attatched using
- >allen-head bolts inserted from the ends. The hollow space in the
- >middle of the axle is filled with air, so the axle assembly is lighter.
- >
- Careful! On my Phil Wood bolt on, the bolts were 5/16" and about
- 2.5 inches long each. On my Phil Wood QR, the ends of the axle are
- reduced to just allow a skewer through...essentially no difference
- in the amount of axle material. But, those two bolts might weigh
- as much as a light QR; I can't check since I stripped the treads
- years ago, put a solid axle through the hub, and now can't find the
- bolts.
-
- > ........................................... The biggest load on hubs
- > is a bending load and the strength of the axle in that direction
- > increases as the square of the axle diameter (? something faster than
- > linear), so having a fat axle is more important than a skinny axle of
- > a stronger material.
- >
- For tubing with a fixed wall thickness, doubling the diameter
- both doubles the amount of material and the mean distance of the
- material from the center, thus qradupling the resistance to
- bending. So, I believe that for solid objects, the resistance
- to bending goes up faster than the square of the diameter (but
- not much, since the material near the center doesn't contribute
- much to bending resistance.)
-
- ..Richard E+17
-