Brian, remember here that the doubling of the thickness of a beam almost adds a factor of seven wrt. stiffness for many materials. The reverse is naturally also true. Add in the threads and the breakage factor due to them and you just have too little material for the repeated loads perpendicular to the designed load vector. You probably wouldn't think of laying a bike down on the curb with the front fork fastener on the concrete curb and then weighing down the frame with something weighing more than you do so that you could sit comfortably on the tire. /*not only the spokes would be overstressed. */ One proviso: I am not an engineer! So these are my opinions and smatterings of things I think I remember reading. regards, ron > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: "brian smith" <briannsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Gesendet: 09.06.08 02:51:24 > An: python@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Betreff: [python] Pivot bearing > Pardon me if this has been adequately covered. > > Have rear and/or front wheel hub bearings been used for the center > steer pivot of a python > If robust enough those with threaded axles should be easy to bolt at > each end into the frame. > Just wondering > Regards to all > Brian in SC USA > > ============================================================ > > This is the Python Mailinglist > > //www.freelists.org/list/python > > Listmaster: Jürgen Mages jmages@xxxxxx > > To unsubscribe send an empty mail to > python-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field. > > ============================================================ > > ============================================================ This is the Python Mailinglist //www.freelists.org/list/python Listmaster: Jürgen Mages jmages@xxxxxx To unsubscribe send an empty mail to python-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field. ============================================================