Got the arms de-towered and cleaned up. A friend of mine owns a railing fabrication biz (currently doing the Statue of Liberty stairs) and mentioned a machine shop next to his facility. Turns out the shop owner is a regular at our driving range and I spoke with him a few years back about making some new offset trees for my DH forks-- never came to be because i didn't have the time to race any longer ... anyway, his clientele after the tooling side that is devoted to making bearing installation and removal tools is pretty much Indy, nascar some F1 and a lot of local dirt and asphalt modified teams etc. Got an "appointment" to drop in on him over the weekend, I think we'll be coming up with a way to integrate a bearing set in the spindles along with the heims. I think the spindle will be strong enough, using it knocks 5 pounds off the end of each arm. The towers will most likely become the upper arm mounts on the frame.
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