Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/19

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Lens wt vs finish->Now question about titanium
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 19:11:00 -0400

Well, someone who has been a machinist since 1964, and who has worked with
titanium has told me that it has about the same machinability as steel, but
is more difficult to weld, and the cost of titanium is about the same as
alloyed steels.  I am taking his word for it.

Dan C.

At 04:32 PM 19-09-98 +0100, you wrote:
>Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>:
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>>I have been told that titanium is no more coslty than steel, and not any
>>more difficult to machine.
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>According to my bike-building friends, you have been misinformed. 
>Ti is _both_ more expensive _and_ more demanding to work than steel.
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