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Hello! Welding in practice wont work as 7075 is a nonweldable alloy due to its mixture of metals. The problem is also that once the cracking starts it wont help to keep an eye on it. Fatique cracking happens in three steps (dont quote me im not a metallurgist) and the first step happens in such...

I will be conducting an experiment on my swingarms. It includes sanding down all the surfaces to smooth finish that are prone to cracking due to fatique and or the combination of heavy riding. There are multiple sources on metallurgy that study the effects of surface finish to fatique strength...

Could you specify what kind of wearing of material did you have and why do you think it might’ve happened? Im interested on seeing some photos of the failure if you can share them! Thank you for coming out with this info

Yeah, i think alot of people have thought about this option. Only that 7075 aluminium is not weldable. It causes microcracking in the material due to heat being introduced to the structure. It wouldn’t be impossible to reverse engineer the swingarm design and machine a batch for those in need. I...

Thank you for anwsering. This is just the information all the voima riders need at the moment. I more than agree with what you are saying about pole. Lets hope someone sees an opportunity in pole and keeps the legacy going.

In my knowledge there hasn't been many of those newer swingarms made if you follow the timeline before the bankruptcy. There isn't any information on how big of a batch was made before they had the machine downtime + bankruptcy. I could imagine their focus was to release the new gravity platform...

Now since pole has filed for bankruptcy and therefore any warranties left on the frames have disappeared, is there any knowledge from anyone of which batch of Voima swingarms are prone to failing? There isn't that much information of what caused the cracking, only that Leo said it was...