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Title: What material are early Tonti footpegs made of ?
Post by: unclepete on December 16, 2015, 09:16:49 AM

The foot-peg bracket ( '76 T-3 ) ; mounts with two bolts on each side ,  foot-pegs front , passenger pegs / muffler hanger rear .
Heated and bent mine to lower the pegs . Expected that I might need to paint them after , but they wire wheeled clean and shiny with no discoloration to the metal . The heat affected end shined up better than the back end ; never was any rust .
Seems any kind of plating would have been spoiled by the torch and wire wheel . Magnetic . Wonderful material .     

Title: Re: What material are early Tonti footpegs made of ?
Post by: oldbike54 on December 16, 2015, 09:41:10 AM

 Sounds like some form of stainless . Did you quench the hangers after heating ?

  Dusty

Title: Re: What material are early Tonti footpegs made of ?
Post by: unclepete on December 16, 2015, 09:51:59 AM

Did not want to make them brittle so set them outside in the cold .

Title: Re: What material are early Tonti footpegs made of ?
Post by: guzzista on December 16, 2015, 11:29:54 AM

Forged Steel

Title: Re: What material are early Tonti footpegs made of ?
Post by: Chuck in Indiana on December 16, 2015, 12:06:56 PM

Quote from: guzzista on December 16, 2015, 11:29:54 AM

Forged Steel

Yeah, it's all coming back, now.. I think they were forgings on the Ts.

Title: Re: What material are early Tonti footpegs made of ?
Post by: JoeW on December 16, 2015, 12:48:21 PM

Quote from: guzzista on December 16, 2015, 11:29:54 AM

Forged Steel

Then chromed

Title: Re: What material are early Tonti footpegs made of ?
Post by: guzzista on December 16, 2015, 02:33:36 PM

And the cool thing, the heavy  forged steel brackets reduce footpeg vibration= more rider comfort