Forums > Technical Discussion > Staff tubing thickness??

Posted: 12th Apr 2005
Mine are 1.5mm wall and i love em. Thing about having a thinner wall is its easier to bend. That means that when you do bend it - and you will - its easier to bend back.

Its much harder with a thicker wall.

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Posted: 12th Apr 2005
i love 17mm for delicate finger manipulations,
anything over 29mm is too big for my fingers.
feel what is right, and take it!!
(paying for it too is good.)

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Posted: 12th Apr 2005
I like 22mm dai but i can live with 25

Its best to make some for yourself to test before you sell anything. thats what i keep telling myself anyway

Posted: 12th Apr 2005

All the fire staffs I make are 1.5-2.00mm wall thickness 25mm marine grade duralimin, I use this stuff for semi and full contact fire staff combat, as well as teaching basic staff, never bent one yet.

mark

Posted: 12th Apr 2005
Thank you all for the tips. i'll go for the 1.6mm seems like it'll be fine.
I was looking for some 3mm thick but noone had any it was only 1.6, that just seemed too thin cause the staff i have at the moment is 3mm.
These are gonna be for myself, i dont think i would trust myself selling anything
thx again!!

Posted: 12th Apr 2005
duralimin

gotta get me some of that, can you bend it? on purpose i mean. in a curve?

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Posted: 12th Apr 2005


I searched for duralimin on google and hop was the first hit

[Old link]

The search function has come full circle. Is HOP the center of the netaverse?

Does anybody know where i could get some duralimin

I wonder did they cut off the last few letters to stop countries argueing about the extra 'i'.

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Posted: 13th Apr 2005
Yep, you can bend duralimin, i'm just having several sets of s shaped six foot staffs bent, it helps if you have access to a tube forming machine bender, what ever you want to call it, find a helpful small engineering firm, I would say watch your radius(s) though, tube and wall thickness will tend to dictate cold form bend radius

mark

Posted: 20th Apr 2005
generally my 3ft staff is a 500mm length of 16mm beech (hardwood NOT pine) dowel rod with 100mm shaved (narrowed) on each end to accomodate a 300mm length of 16mm aluminium tubing forced over the shaved ends.



a 6ft staff uses the same principle with approximately double all the lengths, but instead of 16mm dowel and aluminium, i use 19mm.



i pretty much use the same concept for swords as well!



EDIT:

okay to answer the actual question... the aluminium (both 19 and 16 mm) is of a 1.2mm wall!



Works just fine!



EDTI:

I'll try post some pics next week!
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Posted: 20th Apr 2005
i am bender, please insert girder!

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Posted: 26th Apr 2005
*applies lube....inserts girder*

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