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PyroMonkeyGOLD Member b...bal...lence?.... 370 posts Location: Northern Beaches, Sydney, Australia
Posted: Im going to make a set of fire staffs, first time ive done it so im a bit clueless.
im going to use aliminium tubing, 20mm diameter and 3mm wall thickness, but most suppliers around me only have 1.6mm wall thickness, will this be ok? or is it too thin?
ado-pGOLD Member Pirate Ninja 3,882 posts Location: Galway/Ireland
Posted: 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.
Love is the law.
Bender_the_OffenderGOLD Member still can't believe it's not butter 6,978 posts Location: Melbourne, Australia
Posted: 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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Dragon7GOLD Member addict 625 posts Location: Aotearoa (NZ), New Zealand
Posted: 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
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.
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PyroMonkeyGOLD Member b...bal...lence?.... 370 posts Location: Northern Beaches, Sydney, Australia
Posted: 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!!
ado-pGOLD Member Pirate Ninja 3,882 posts Location: Galway/Ireland
Posted: duralimin
gotta get me some of that, can you bend it? on purpose i mean. in a curve?
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ado-pGOLD Member Pirate Ninja 3,882 posts Location: Galway/Ireland
Posted:
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'.
Posted: 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
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ShuBRONZE Member Retro Fyre Wizzard 538 posts Location: Pietermaritzburg (KZN), South Africa
Posted: 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! EDITED_BY: Shu (1114695579)
Regards
Shu (Ice-E FyreStorm - Group Manager & Performer)
You know those people your parentals warned you about?... I'M ONE OF THEM! Yes, i do bite!!
Bender_the_OffenderGOLD Member still can't believe it's not butter 6,978 posts Location: Melbourne, Australia
Posted: i am bender, please insert girder!
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DuncGOLD Member playing the days away 7,263 posts Location: The Middle lands, United Kingdom
Posted: *applies lube....inserts girder*
Let's relight this forum
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