Hey guys,
I've recently been given the project of designing the bellcranks for our car for the 2006 competition. Last year, we got our bellcranks CNCed out of aluminum but they still required machining once we got them because the CNC couldn't cut on one side. So after talking to my suspension leader he mentioned that there were possibly other ways of doing it. Like CNCing two pieces of aluminum and using adhesive to put them together to make one bellcrank and avoid the extra machining. He also mentioned that we could make it out of steel sheet metal just welded togeterh and have the bellcrank hollow in the centre.
I was just hoping you guys could point me to some good information or give me some of your past experience with the subject.
Thanks for your time,
-Tim Yeung