Posted by John Swensen on February 22, 2000 at 14:20:07:
In Reply to: Re: Re: tuba metals posted by marc on February 19, 2000 at 14:56:15:
I hope your brother has a monstrously large and rigid lathe (like a Monarch 10EE) to machine that titanium with (Ti is notoriously difficult to machine).
Titanium will ding; could you (or your brother) be thinking of hyper-flexible titanium-nickel alloys, instead? (Such alloys, like NiTinol, are sometimes used to make very durable eyeglass frames.)