color of titanium hinge pins depending on vendor?

[jwscab]

Hey guys, I picked up some rear arms/hubs/mounts/universals on ebay recently. After dissassembly, I noticed that the hinge pins were not magnetic and felt 'light', also saw that the outer pins had a very light 'goldish' tint to them. Anyone know who the vendor of the pins might be?

These arms also happen to be the style that are 'worlds' but in white. Are these arms fiber reinforced like the black ones, and are all of the 'team' car front arms, white or black, also reinforced, ie, are there early and late white arms? I have a sort of a 'worlds' car clone that I'm going to put these on, but right now I have andy's front white arms. Want to put associated white arms on them, but wanted to see if there was a difference.

[Charlie don't surf]

HG made gold aluminum and gold titanium pins ( the aluminium ones are very gold ) the fiber reinforced white ones were only late 93' team car and CE as far as I have seen here

[littleVETTE]

they're probably tecnacraft. i sold a losi gold set a while ago. the losi guys could maybe chime in on this. i not 100%, but i think they came in gold for the rc10's as well.

[LTO_Dave]

I have a set of Magic/Trinity RC10 pins that are gold but have a textured finish to them.

All of the Lunsford pins I've ever bought were silver/chrome.

[jwscab]

thanks guys, I was just curious, these are really pale looking gold, kind of a nice surprise when I took it all apart. I'll snap a pic and post it later tonight.

Reg, does that apply for both the front and rear arms? Were the white team arms always fiber reinforced or where there two different styles?

[Charlie don't surf]

The late ones were fiber reinforced, and the rear arms of this type also have the extra bracing in the middle like the black ones. The standard team car and CE widetrack arms had no fiber.

I also have some gold lunsfords that came with gold lunsford turnbuckles as a set.

[jwscab]

hmm...interesting....thanks for the info!

[Jay Dub]

Not positive, But I would be suprised if all the arms weren't reinforced. The early arms (I thought) were fiberglass reinforced. The later versions were carbon or graphite.

Generally tolerances are tighter, and there is less deformation of the material as it cools when being molded if a reinforcement is added. Plus the RC10 arms are noticeably stiffer than unreinforced arms like Andy's or RPM. I would like to ask somebody at AE though to confirm. -Jeff