WTF is it!?

--Where's this junkyard?? If you paid less than $40/lb for the stuff I'm going to drive there!!

Agreed.

Don't think it's titanium, it's much too heavy. Plus I tried forging it... although titanium is forged industrially, no?

Doesn't do anything with the grinder either, and I remember from BattleBots that titanium makes some kickass showers of white sparks when the killsaws hit it. ;-)

BTW I returned the stuff to the 'yard and managed to get my $50 back... still have to grab some aluminum though. Kept a chunk though, it weighs 532 grams. A cut-up milk jug weighs 15g, and after displacing water into it, weighs 85g, i.e. 70g of water. 532/70 = 7.6 specific gravity.

Tim

-- "I've got more trophies than Wayne Gretsky and the Pope combined!" - Homer Simpson Website @

Be my guest, it's sitting at Stateline Recycling in Janesville, WI.

Tim

-- "I've got more trophies than Wayne Gretsky and the Pope combined!" - Homer Simpson Website @

But that would throw sparks and be magnetic. This stuff is running me (us) in circles...

Tim

-- "I've got more trophies than Wayne Gretsky and the Pope combined!" - Homer Simpson Website @

Stateline???? I'll be damned...I work about 2 blocks from there, Tim.

Hmmm...we're neighbors...do we know each other???

Mike

You sure you aren't thinking of magnesium instead of titanium?

Ti burns the same way magnesium does.

It's harder to light. ERS

300 series Stainless is not magnetic when annealed. When cold worked it is somewhat magnetic. It also does not throw sparks.

Dan

No way it gets this hard though, and it's hot workable.

Are the hard, high-temp alloys like inconel non-sparking?

Tim

-- "I've got more trophies than Wayne Gretsky and the Pope combined!" - Homer Simpson Website @

No, titanium may be just a little harder to get ignited than Magnesium, but it burns with about the same intensity. It can also cause massive explosions if you try to put it out with water. If it burns with an intense white flame, then you can use the weight to tell the two apart.

Jon

I don't know.... haven't read the whole thread.... but I firmly believe you are in a strong position for :The American Experience"...... you bought low... NOW SELL HIGH....!

I heard that clorine attacks Ti. Wonder what it does to Magnesium ?

Martin

I think that's dry chlorine. Wet chlorine doesn't phase it. Keeping track of titanium fittings in a chlorine liquefaction plant is important. If it were accidentally used after the chlorine is dried, the resulting chlorine fire could start a chlorine - iron fire in adjacent equipment.

Chlorine with anything isn't a test I'd want to run at home. Probably kill the cockroaches, though.

Pete Keillor