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5/20/16, 3:42 PM   #18
Re: Usac: Usac sprint technical update: Car construction
TQ29m
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Hi Billy, long time since I've talked with you. I used to have a chart, that gave the per ft weights of the moly I was using in building my cars, and for the amount of feet, and the diff in a ft of weight, you could probably build one out of all .095, and not gain much over 5lbs in a whole car, the first one I built, I saved the butts off every stick of welding rod, every bit of tube that was not used, ie, every notch pc, everything, and the first car came up within 1 lb, of the total of all the tube I actually used, plus the filler rod, just had to do it, to see how accurate the final product came to what I started with, now is that worth all this hassle, you can look on AED's website, it has all the per ft weights of all the different sizes of moly, look it up for you own satisfaction. Bob
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