The C5 and C6 frames used hydroformed side rails — single
pieces of steel tubing running the full length of the frame, bent into shape via internal hydraulic pressure.
Not exact matches
The two -
piece propeller shaft that carries drive torque from the transfer case to the rear - drive unit is made
of high - strength
steel tubing to permit a smaller diameter, thereby improving both ground clearance and interior room.
Spanning two floors
of the 24 Grafton Street location in London, the exhibition will feature works that relate to the artist's ongoing series
of «collage sculptures» begun in 2016, characterized by square
steel tubing that has been crushed and bent into soft folds that belie their material construction, then painted in a uniform color and variably combined with found
pieces of scrap metal and a smooth, highly polished
steel disk.
These consist
of crushed metal (sourced from new industrial
steel tubing, the cutting - room floor parts
of previous works, or found scrap metal) with surfaces that are either left as - is — in the case
of the raw, rusted found
pieces — or painted with light - absorbing, velvety car paint.
In Daphne and Apollo — a tight arrangement
of solid red
steel tubing wrapped around large
pieces of found
steel from a scrapyard — one material seems to morph into another with an allusion
of movement similar to the Baroque sculpture
of the same title by Bernini.
The large suspended
pieces, each called «Bird Song,» in her third solo at Talwar, are based on armatures made
of stainless -
steel tubing bent into curves.
Instead
of joining the bamboo frame
pieces together with a bulky and rather unsightly mass
of material, Pedal Forward uses
steel «lugs» for the crucial joints (bottom bracket, seat post, head
tube and front fork, and rear drop - outs), and then epoxies in «iron bamboo»
tubes to build the frame.