remember the guy...

[vristang]

Jason,
Since you are in the field and preaching so much against it, why don't you take some hose clamps and load them up on your loading machine. Do 10 or so till plastic deformation takes place and let us know what the average is. I would do it myself but I don't have access to strain gauges or loading machines atm. That would be helpful to prove how dangerous it truly is. Just a thought.

Doing this would involve presenting a business case to my management.
I would have to show that performing this testing would benefit my company in some significant way.

I don't work at some rinky dink backwoods test lab.

Strain gages would not be needed, or even practical on a hose clamp.
Load and deflection data would be more than sufficient.

The challenge would be to induce load in the hose clamp the same way load would be induced on a spring.


I would be more than willing to help with the Test Design if others want to make this happen. I have been kicking around a couple of ideas that could be interesting........
Unfortunately, I can't commit my companies resources to this type of activity.


jason

 

[FrankenStang]

 

[FrankenStang]

this is the best thread... EVER

if someone wants to do the load test, ill buy the hose clamps

No, it's not.

 

[FrankenStang]

This may be the stupidest thing I have seen. I honestly cant figure out why the whole thread wasn't deleted. They delete street racing threads because they are promoting stupid and dangerous behavior . OH.....Wait.... So is this.

Bingo. This and the fact that I was asked to, is why I closed it.