Steel rod life expectancy

Kevin Panzino · 06-16-2014, 04:32 PM

Aluminum is a terrible material for fatigue resistance. Horrible.

A quality steel rod (not made in China) will last essentially a lifetime if kept within its design range. Not so with aluminum no matter what the alloy, or QA/QC. Its just the nature of the materials inherent poor fatigue resistance qualities.

Oliver and Manley offer very reasonably priced 100% USA material, USA forging, and USA machined rods... right around $1200 a set.

06-16-2014, 04:32 PM	#7
Kevin Panzino Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Pittsburgh Posts: 575 Likes: 298 Liked 747 Times in 136 Posts	Re: Steel rod life expectancy Aluminum is a terrible material for fatigue resistance. Horrible. A quality steel rod (not made in China) will last essentially a lifetime if kept within its design range. Not so with aluminum no matter what the alloy, or QA/QC. Its just the nature of the materials inherent poor fatigue resistance qualities. Oliver and Manley offer very reasonably priced 100% USA material, USA forging, and USA machined rods... right around $1200 a set.