[Land-speed] Ballast

[Doug Anderson]

or shotgun shot... #6's     whichever is cheaper in bulk..




c heers to ya , ' Dirt Track Doug '




-20 miles from Square Deal Raceway,

        -21 miles east of Action Park Speedway,

        -63 miles northeast of Champion Speedway

       -105 miles south of  ' The Syracuse
Mile ' ...

       -241.4 miles north of Williams Grove Speedway

       -2247 miles due east of the Bonneville Salt
Flats


but never more than a few feet from a cold one

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> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 19:11:36 -0700
> From: drmayf at mayfco.com
> To: land-speed at autox.team.net
> Subject: [Land-speed] Ballast
>
> I keep reminding mysef that the Sunbeam is pretty light weight. So to
> that end Ihave been looking for ballast. I have these lovely rectangular
> tube frame rails which beg to be filled with something.  So I was
> messing around th eother day on ebay and found something that interested
> me. It is a steel shot grit used in blasting heavy iron castings. It
> comes in a lot of different grit sizes from 0.007 to something like
> 0.025 diameters. Smaller is more dense. And th stuff is oiled so it is
> kinda slippery (according to the guy I chatted with)  Has any amoung you
> ever used such a product as ballast? I would pur the stuff into the
> frame tubes and then seal the end to keep it all in place. And since
> this is frame, it is way down low which is good.  I figure I have enough
> frame locations to add about 400 pounds to the car just this way.
>
> Anybody use something like this?
>
> mayf

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