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Abundant Aluminum
The material we use to make our pulleys and brackets is called 6061-T6 billet aluminum. This material has been around since 1935. It is used for many things because of its good mechanical properties and its ability to be welded and machined. 6061 tells us that the material is a precipitation-hardened aluminum alloy that use magnesium and silicon as its major alloy elements. The alpha-numerical suffix represents the temper-degree of hardness and how the hardness was achieved. T6 tells us that the
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Nov 4th 2017