ORIGINAL: rotarydoc
systemlord,
Must be nice!
I'm going to get a break tomorrow, so they say, a little over 50 degrees...whoopee!! It'll feel like summer time to me...lol
Hey, how did that company for the titanium tubing work out for you?
Glenn
I'm sitting right next to the 60" titanium tubing right now, tomorrow I'm taking it to a friends mill machine to cut and put the flat spots onto the shafts for the head set screw and the spur gears set screw. You wouldn't believe how much easier it is to flex a 60" titanium wire compared to when its short at stock length at 130.5 mm or 5.137" inches! That leaves me with eleven titanium CX2 shafts, remember titanium even when bent by hand has better memory.
Metals with low memory are the ones that stay bent like cheap stainless steel, where if you bend titanium even further it will bend right back to its original shape. Titanium has to go through a hardening process much like hardened steel does which is why titanium snaps like a twig when bent to the extremes! I'll give everyone a heads up when there done, I'm going to find the breaking point for both stainless steel and then titanium. We want to test it before we sell them because if it doesn't hold up like we want they are not going to find homes with CX2 owners.