rhino105amx
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Ti is not lighter than aluminium.
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Any good uses for Titanium
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rhino105amx said:
no, but its darn close but a hell of alot stronger.
trailblazr81
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Put some strips on the frame or back bumper on yer lowrider so when you drag frame you get nice spark action. At least thats what somebody once told me what they used to do back in the day...
sparklers!
Yes,Wheelie bars had titanuim on them to do a spark show at dragstrips on some wheelstanders I've seen!...I hear titanium makes great false teeth
too,and they use it for hip joint sockets in hip replacement surgurey..maybe save it for your seinior years??. 
Yes,Wheelie bars had titanuim on them to do a spark show at dragstrips on some wheelstanders I've seen!...I hear titanium makes great false teeth
too,and they use it for hip joint sockets in hip replacement surgurey..maybe save it for your seinior years??. 
ak bandit
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I never understood why titanium is so expensive. It's one of the most abundant minerals on earth. And fairly cheap and easy to refine 
gambit420s
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diesel4me said:they use it for hip joint sockets in hip replacement surgurey..maybe save it for your seinior years??.
my friend gets all the Ti implants from his uncle that runs a crematorium, they are awesome!! five gallon bucket full weighs like 10 lbs.
but we have to dip em in an acid solution(i think its acid) to remove all the chewy morsels...
the screws are really cool, square drive, course thread, and hella strong. we broke a sledge hammer trying to bend one in a vise
fortcollinsram
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ak bandit said:I never understood why titanium is so expensive. It's one of the most abundant minerals on earth. And fairly cheap and easy to refine
Yes it is VERY abundant on our planet. The problem is that is is in trace amounts. One has to process such a massive amount of raw material to extract a given amount of Ti that the cost of production rapidly rises. Very similar to diamonds. Such a shear volume of material has to be moved and processed to yield just a 1carat diamond that the cost of moving 1,000 metric tons of rock is quickly passed on to the finished product
U-Joints
Only worth it if you are attempting to save weight otherwise most steel's are just as strong.
Only worth it if you are attempting to save weight otherwise most steel's are just as strong.
Cheap Ti
Titanium is the 9th most abundant mineral but it is not in a pure form not is it easy to purify. Most of the Ti in the US is made from beach sand that some from Australia. The sand is mixed with chlorine, and heated, to produce a gas. The gas is run through several distillers to purify. Magnesium or sodium is added which attracts the chlorine leaving the titanium sponge. The MgCl is pulled off of the Ti sponge and the Ti sponge is pushed out of the vessel it is in (So far it is about a one month process). The sponge is crushed sampled for chemistry, alloys added, compacted in small segments with a 7000-ton press. The segments are welded together to form a ~4000-7000# electrode. The electrode is melted in a large furnace that is very similar to a stick welder except it uses 12,000 amps and is done in an argon atmosphere. At least one or two melts follows the first melt. Now you have a 28-36”, 8000-18000 ingot that has to go through the forging steps and that where the expensive part is. I know a lot more than you wanted to know.
Titanium is the 9th most abundant mineral but it is not in a pure form not is it easy to purify. Most of the Ti in the US is made from beach sand that some from Australia. The sand is mixed with chlorine, and heated, to produce a gas. The gas is run through several distillers to purify. Magnesium or sodium is added which attracts the chlorine leaving the titanium sponge. The MgCl is pulled off of the Ti sponge and the Ti sponge is pushed out of the vessel it is in (So far it is about a one month process). The sponge is crushed sampled for chemistry, alloys added, compacted in small segments with a 7000-ton press. The segments are welded together to form a ~4000-7000# electrode. The electrode is melted in a large furnace that is very similar to a stick welder except it uses 12,000 amps and is done in an argon atmosphere. At least one or two melts follows the first melt. Now you have a 28-36”, 8000-18000 ingot that has to go through the forging steps and that where the expensive part is. I know a lot more than you wanted to know.
sandawgk5 said:Not to be a Know it all but our subs are made out of an alloy steel and it is only 1 5/8" thick. The Russians however do have titanium hulls. As a matter of fact the Russians have 2 pressure hulls on every submarine one inside the other.
Ira
The old ruskies have had some good luck with that in the last few years haven't they???
sandawgk5 said:Not to be a Know it all but our subs are made out of an alloy steel and it is only 1 5/8" thick. The Russians however do have titanium hulls. As a matter of fact the Russians have 2 pressure hulls on every submarine one inside the other.
yeah, Im not 100% sure why we don't contract with some russian companies to build use some double Ti hulls. Their hull tech + our propulsion + our electronics = most bad azz sub ever. I don't know how deep an Alpha can go, but AFAIK its a lot deeper than any of our (manned) subs.
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