@metman
Thank you for your detailed answer.
The reason why I want to use an aluminium alloy is weight. My main goal is to reduce the weight of this rear sprocket as much as possible but keep the wear resistance of an steel one.
If there wouldn´t by the challenge to reduce the weigt, of course...
Thank you all for your help. Especially the articel off Dr. Peter Min was very enlightening.
But i have two more questinons:
1. Would the hardeness of an aluminium alloy increase if you use an alluminum alloy with an higher tensile strenght (eg. weldalite with 710 mpa instead of the 573mpg of...
Hello @ all,
Sorry about that simple/naive question but i think i can´t really answer it my self.
Ok, lets think about following situation:
We have 2 motorcycle rear sprockets:
No.1 is made of an high grade Aluminium alloy (7075-T6)
No.2 is made of standart steel (as used by the OEM...
