Tungsten Alloy Ballast in a Formula 1 Car

Formula 1 cars are weighed during the Grand Prix weekend to ensure they comply with the minimum weight requirement of 640 kg. Teams use tungsten alloy ballast to ensure the cars run at the minimum weight.

Ballast was once made of iron or lead. Nowadays, a much more advanced material is utilized: a tungsten alloy .

Tungsten alloy could ,made into various balance and ballast components to allow engineers the opportunity to optimise vehicle handling. Ballast is normally located underneath the floor of the car as close to the ground as possible to maintain a very low Cg (centre of gravity).

Tungsten Ballast for F1Racing Car

Tungsten ballast is a F1 specific tuning option. Ballast allows you to add weight to an already light car, with the specific intention of altering the weight distribution of the car. This works hand in hand with tungsten weight Balance. Modern F1 car have tungsten ballast of more then 150 Kg. Applying very expensive and very heavy metal ballast in precise places, usually but not always on the underside of the monocoque, on the as lowest place as possible to further lower the center of gravity.

As on most cars, the RB4 has tiny blocks of tungsten inside the wing's main profile, hidden from view within covered housings. But in addition to this 'standard' ballast placing, the RB4's endplates also have detachable aerodynamically shaped covers which hide extra ballast pieces (picture down). The ballast may look small, but the high density of the ballast metal means they can carry 5 to 7 kilograms. This allows the weight distribution of the car to be moved more forwards, improving its overall weight distribution.

Tungsten alloys provide maximum weight in the smallest possible space. The components are manufactured according to the customer’s project.

Specification of Tungsten Heavy Alloy Golf Weight

Tungsten alloy golf weight is now well known as the best material for this significant role of golf club balance weight. Through adopting tungsten alloy golf weight can greatly improve performance of golf clubs; so many users like to use them.
A golf club head includes one or more balance weights for swing balancing the golf club. The balance weight is selected from a plurality of balance weights and mounted in a weight cavity formed in the golf club head.
Because of their unique properties, tungsten alloy golf weights are well suited for use as weights for sports equipment. The product has a density twice that of steel and weigh seven times more than aluminum.
We have more than 10 years manufacture experience in tungsten alloy golf weight. We welcome the opportunity to cooperate with our customers in the design of individual specifications of tungsten alloy golf weight. Our mission is to meet individual customer requirements of it. Flexibility is our strength. We pride ourselves on being able to find the right solution to customer's problems of product. It is one of our leading products. We can provide all kinds of product as your requirements.

Tungsten Counterweight for Aerospace

Both government agencies and the private industry sector rely on tungsten alloy material for quality aerospace components. With high-density materials, tungsten aerospace counterweight  can be achieved in tight spaces. Some of the components we manufacture for the aerospace industry include, but are not limited to:
Rotor blades
Propellers
Inertial systems
Fluid control systems
Bucking bars
Trim weights
Aircrafts balance weights
Aircraft ballast weights
Anti-vibration metals
Helicopter Blade Weights
Instrumentation components
Missile components
Vibration dampening components
Ordnance
Airplane Rudders
Prototype models

Tungsten Weight Properties

Tungsten alloys weight have many special properties such as high density (15.8-18.7g/cm3), high melting point, wear resistance, high tensile strength, good elongation capacity, low vapor pressure, excellent thermal stability and high radiation absorption capacity, etc.. And due to these advantages they are widely used in various fields including the sports, industry and medicine, etc.. The most common high density Tungsten alloys are W-Ni-Fe and W-Ni-Cu.

Tungsten Weights, Counterbalances & Ballasts

Counter weights made from tungsten heavy alloy compensate for oscillations, weight transfers, imbalances and vibrations, create or shift centers of gravity and more generally ensure the optimum balance.

Counterbalance weights are crucial components in many different applications. They help reduce the loads that parts are exposed to and consequently increase their service life. Such as:
Aviation and aerospace: Propeller and rotor blades, Aircraft weights
Automotive industry: Crankshaft counterweights/balancing and chassis weights, Vibration dampening governors, Balances of flywheels and turbines
Watch industry: Bobs/weights on watch rotors
Optical industry: Microscopes and measuring instruments

Pinewood Derby Tungsten Putty

Pinewood derby tungsten putty is a moldable material made from tungsten powder and a polymer binder. Tungsten putty will not harden under normal conditions, and has a density of 10 g/cm3.

Tungsten Putty is an easy way to fine tune the weight of your pinewood derby car. Made to be malleable, you can quickly and easily place the last bit of weight to any derby car. Pinewood derby tungsten putty can be used at home when building your car or brought to the track to help bring your car up to weight on race day.

Simply add the tungsten putty to any small crevice or hole. Our tungsten putty is very sticky and doesn't need glue or anything added to help keep the putty in position. It can be pulled, pinched, cut and formed into whatever shape you need.
Pinewood derby tungsten putty can easily be used for final adjustments to the weight of pinewood derby cars. Simply pinch off a small piece of the tungsten putty, knead it until it's pliable, and press pinewood derby tungsten putty into any cavity or hole in the car.

Advantage of Tungsten Weight

Tungsten weight gives you an advantage because it is about 1.8 times denser than lead, which make it is about half the size.
You can pack more weight in a smaller area giving you more flexibility in your car design.
You can place weight exactly where you need it for maximum speed.
(See weight placement in Winning Pinewood Derby Secrets)
Tungsten has the added advantage of being non-toxic, so you do not need gloves to handle it.

1/4 ounce Tungsten Cylinders -1oz kit

This is the perfect weight for Pinewood Derby cars. Tungsten is a highly dense material which is almost as dense as pure gold. Tungsten is 1.7 times more dense than lead and 2.7 times as dense as zinc.  

When you have a wafer thin car or are just trying to push your weight farther to the rear of the car, Tungsten is the ticket! 

Each package of Derby tungsten contains four cylinders (3/8" in diameter, 1/4" in length, and weigh 1/4 ounce each). They fit perfectly in to the pre-drilled weight holes found our blocks, wedges, and pre-cut cars.  
Tungsten is also non-toxic and environmentally friendly.

Pinewood Derby Weights

Weight choice and placement is crucial in building a Winning Pinewood Derby Car. The closer you are to the legal weight limit and perfect center of gravity, the faster it will go. Derby Champ features the fastest designs and easiest to use weights from the best materials. Our lead wire is of pure, high quality lead for greater density. Our Tungsten is of the highest quality and density available for Pinewood Derby Racing today. Tungsten is greatly denser than lead (1.7 times) and zinc (2.8 times) making it easier to concentrate your weights. Derby Champ features the highest quality sintered tungsten ranging in the 18.1 gram per cc range and polished for excellent fit and finish allowing the builder the ability to put the Most weight in the Smallest area for the Greatest potential energy.

Tungsten Weight for Sports

Tungsten sport weight is a booming industry with numerous players portraying their attributes to overcome one another. Tungsten Bullet Weights, Tungsten Alloy For Fishing Sinker, etc. These are precision engineered by a team of experts who make use of highest grade metal alloys featuring equal composition of various metals. They understand the specific requirements of our clients and ensure reasonable and on-time solutions for the same. This has built us as a strong and trusted Tungsten Sports Weight manufacture, supplier and exporter. We are acknowledged in the marketplace owing to the attractive attributes like high melting point, high density and small volume, excellent hardness, ultimate tensile strength, superior wearing resistance, well machinability, high ductility, high impact resistance, crack resistance, non-toxic and environmental friendliness. These can be availed in desired quantities from our company to serve bulk requirements of various industries.

Tungsten Alloy Ski Weight

Tungsten ski balance weights is a kind of tungsten alloy products and relate to the technological sector of skis and the associated accessories which allows optimum performance to be achieved in all skiing disciplines. More particularly, the product relates to an assembly consisting of ski, ski boot and associated bindings. One or more weights of variable size are mounted on the ski in order to achieve better balancing of the ski itself and a reduction in the vibrations of its various parts caused by the pressure stresses acting on the zone of bearing contact of the ski with the snow.

As running mostly strengthens the lower body, many joggers and runners decide to wear additional weights on their forearms in form of wristbands or on their hands in form of gloves. It is also common to use weighted ankle-bands while exercising. Other weights in different forms, such as dumbbell-type hand weights are also widely used.

Tungsten Alloy Golf Weight

Golf only recently became one of the tungsten alloy sports. Golf club comprises a main body of club head that is made of low-density, lightweight and tough alloy, a counterweight slot, a neck part. Tungsten alloy counterweight is placed in the counterweight slot that is shaped as long slot or ring slot. It can be located at the bottom, center or the periphery of the club head's main body. The tungsten alloy sports products can be inserted into one ore more of the counterweight slots. The neck part is welded on one side of the top of the club head main body to make up the golf club head. Golf club balance can be manipulated by adding weights with different gravities or by the changing position of the counterweight slot welding on the club head main body. Each golf club can be than fine-tuned to mach golfer's needs.

Tungsten Alloy Tennis Counterweight

Tennis player strikes the ball and seeks to achieve as much control as possible with the greatest force applied to the ball. This occurs when the ball is struck at a position on the strings known as the "sweet spot" which is the central area of the strings. Player attempts to hit the ball squarely with the racket head opposite to the direction of flight of the ball. No two players have identical swings and therefore two different players may swing slightly different with the same racket. Furthermore, since the tennis racket weight and overall structure is fixed after it is made; the only way to achieve a different arrangement is to obtain a racket having a different weight or weight distribution. Tungsten alloy sports products allows weights to be easily added at selected points of the racket that would improve a players overall swing. Selected weighting can be used to increase the weight of the head for a more powerful serve, but also to correct imbalances in player's swing. Tungsten alloy sports material is the best possible material in this case.