Material Rigid Thickness

[PJ-27]

I believe Grade 4 has the highest elasticity rating of them all.

[typhoon_driver]

get a bit of heat in it too. Not enought to turn it red hot but a couple hundred degrees won't be a bad thing

[Mouldy]

As Gary said, stick it in a vice- blow torch it, then bend it over...will bend like butter... thats how i did 360s selfwrighting bar...thats 10mm ti.

or... take it to a local engineering shop and ask them nicely... would bend easy in a press or even a hand bender...

for the reccord when grinding Ti as suggested above... wear a mask as the dust is a carcenagenic.

as for TI flexibility...they get more bendy the lower the grade... grade 1 being real bendy- 4 being pretty stiff... 5 being un bendable without heat....all todo with the alpha beta particles in the Ti...

i used to have a sponsorship deal with http://www.titanium.com until the manager i knew left the buisness... he told me alot of stuff and gave me plenty freebies.

[jonny]

you can bend grade 5 cold, i've done so on antweights.

[Mouldy]

yeah.. on thin stuff sure.. how thick was it and what angle?

[harry hills]

i dont know about jonny but the stuff i bent was 1mm thick, not sure about the angle, ill find out

[PJ-27]

Anybody on here with the tools fancy kindly doing it for me? :wink:

At the moment I don't have a workshop, let alone blow torch, vice etc....

The chassis only weighs a few hundred grams so postage would be easy.

[jonny]

i've done up to about 110 with 1mm, 0.5mm and 0.6mm

[Mouldy]

Lucky!

Pj- buy a cheap vice of eBay mate there so handy... Don't know how you got this far without one!

[typhoon_driver]

Get yourself a vice. One of those tools that becomes so useful. I take mine to competitions and secure it to benches using a couple of G-clamps. Then you become Mr popular