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Testament

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  1. hardly anyone knew what they were doing ten years ago so everyone made mistakes when installing and tuning them. the hardware hasn't really changed all that much tbh but they do all the same things as most all of the other tuneable ecus and the tuning software has got alot better. but mostly having a wideband and knowing what you are trying to achieve and how to use the software to change the different parameters as required is the big thing once its all wired up correctly.

     

    so yeah will probably run terrible

     

    just get a microtech with only 8 cells to tune and it will be mint

     

     

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  2. have a good google, I have a feeling these might be the same as a thermal arc 181i / tweco 181i 

    I know my cigweld 250i is the same as a thermal arc 252i  as cigweld/thermal arc have the same parent company. now esab I think, was victor technologies before I believe.

    but yeah do some research into that because you will find a lot more review/info on the net for the thermal arc products as they are whats sold in the USA, so if it is the same that gives you more information to make your decision on.

  3. definitely need to tryout that dremal 3 jaw refacing lark on my atlas 3 jaw so I can use that to the great disdain of sentradave.  what was the procedure, did you back and forth the carriage one jaw at a time or spin the chuck by hand and slowly progress the carriage?

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  4. there could be a few ways

    1. make some extras and test to destruction in a manner that resembles the foreseeable failure modes
    2. finite element analysis by a recognised expert in such work showing sufficient safety factor
    3. design similar to a known good design and proof that the new design is stronger than the similar known good design (higher spec material, slightly thicker sections etc.)

    hence the need to discuss and gain design approval to go down whatever route is agreed on

    no idea if any of those have been done, but they are what I would consider reasonable paths to approval.

    then I would think some quality control measures for manufacture, crack testing etc.

     

    you add all that up and you could spend a lot of money on buying aftermarket wheels from anywhere in the world and come out cheaper I imagine.  Option 3 is probably the only one that wouldn't be prohibitively expensive and would probably limit you to relatively simple designs.  I don't think you would get away with it for a BBS mesh style or many thin spoke type of centre as I would think most of those are forged

    all that said I could be wrong. ring someone up at the lvvta and ask and report back?

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