.90 Boom Tube Size?
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5/8" aluminum
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I run 5/8 carbon/glass tubes.
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You can use solid 3/8" carbon just be mindful the booms will break only after everything else does in a crash. I prefer tubular 1/2" glass/carbon and 5/8" glass/carbon booms.
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I just use the 6061 - t- 6 aluminum tubing and it is cheap and easy to fab although I have wanted to explore the flexibility of the carbon or FG as a form of suspension for a less edgy and radical ride with the twins .
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My only problem that i ran into Tom was finding tubes the would slide into each other. Fixed this by just reaming the 5/8 OD tube to .511 ID. Slides nicely now.
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Solid 3/8" CF pultruded rod for my 90 boat.
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On my Twin 91 / 80 extreme I'm running double wall aluminum in the tub area and 1 " outside the tub to stop stress cracking of the tubing at the hull bolt holes and it really stiffened the ride up but I'm not sure i like it as much as the single wall . You can really feel it while driving it . Hard to beat aluminum for cost and ease of replacement at the races . I keep two sets of boom tubes in the trailer cut to length .
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I use to do the aluminum thing. Just hated it when they got bent. Boat got real ugly. I like the give of the carbon/glass.
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Yeah my Eagles have Carbon and i like it but it's hard to teach old dogs new tricks !!!
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