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I think the plates look great and they give people another option.
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hahaha, your math is correct.Now with all this said, that is sheer strength of the bolts not load capacity that means the bolts would have been loose, and all the weight of the vehicle would have to be directly over one tire in my figures. Also I did not figure for air density or atmospheric drag. And I have never seen a deuce in hazard county.
Ok so I did a little math. 16pcs .750 grade 8 studs have a sheer strength of 640,000 lbs. And a 13,500 lbs vehicle to equate that much force must have a vertical fall of 4.5 (aprox.) ft. Now that is with out compensating for deceleration of impact, after I figured for suspension, tire, rim bending, ground absorption, and small other factors I came up with about 1 second of deceleration. And with that in the mix it would take a vertical fall of about 50 ft. to get 648,000 slug ft./em2. At 60 mph forward motion that is 117 ft. jump in the air.
I'm considering putting HEMTT wheels on one of my bobbed trucks, using one of the flat plate adpaters being manufactured by various steelsoldiers memebers (haven't decided which one yet).
Keeping in mind I've not closely looked at how the HEMTT wheels are assembled, but why couldn't you press out the HEMTT studs and replace them with press fit studs who's shank is longer (by the thickness of the adapter plate) and press them into the adapter and wheel.
The HEMTT wheel's studs are pressed in, right?
As long as the adapter plate's holes are the correct size for press in studs, doesn't that solve the problem?
Assuming the original studs are press fit, is anyone making plates who's holes are the correct size for pressed studs?
Yeah, in general people tend to look at bolts in these applications as shear pins taking the forces(drive flanges are a good example). Their main job is to provide clamping force, and the shear loads are actually handed by the friction between the clamped parts. Thinking back to the drive-flange case, stronger studs gain strength not by being stronger shear pins, but by allowing more stud torque, which increases the metal-metal clamping force.Hey Mike, Nice rim plates, they look virtually bulletproof.
I think others here who have not had a hemmt rim apart dont realize that the outer half of the rim fits OVER thin inner half for about an inch and a half of overlap. therefore the Hemmt studs are under tension load with very little shear load possible.
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