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Blackhawk Kart Guru in Florida
| Joined: | Tue Mar 28th, 2017 |
| Location: | North Orlando Area, Florida USA |
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Welcome to the site.
Do you plan to build your own kart frame based on an old vintage kart design? There are a few guys on here whom have done that.
Iffin you are fortunate enough to find an old kart technical manual from the timeframe of your desired kart, you will see the 1" tube you mentioned with a minimum wall thickness of .083", made of a minimum of mild steel. The early 60s they had a few karts using 3/4" tube and 1" tube. They were exploring what the specs should be as they went.
There were even some karts made of aluminum tube to the same specs for 1" tube as above. Early Blackhawk karts were steel frames, then they used half steel and half aluminum.
Could you please give us an idea of what you plan on doing? We can give you more guidance with more information.
I hope this helps.
Kind Regards,
Joe
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