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Posted by: McMark Dec 26 2005, 05:57 PM

How much would a 6x6x8 billet of Titanium cost? Anyone know?

Posted by: scotty b Dec 26 2005, 06:02 PM

Lowe's has it, in the bolt / metal isle for $20.00 they usually have a good stock of it. Good luck

Posted by: TimT Dec 26 2005, 06:05 PM

1x3x12 costs $212 for Grade 4 (40KSI-YS) and 521 for grade 5 (6AL-4V)

You can kind of extrapolate from there

Posted by: TimT Dec 26 2005, 06:06 PM

Oh and then machining it opens up all sorts of hidden costs

Posted by: Andyrew Dec 26 2005, 06:10 PM

Ft or inches?

Posted by: Mark Henry Dec 26 2005, 06:14 PM

QUOTE (Andyrew @ Dec 26 2005, 08:10 PM)
Ft or inches?

If it's in metric maybe he's not going....DOH!

Posted by: kwales Dec 26 2005, 06:16 PM

Ouch!

This is gonna hurt......

Ken

Posted by: LvSteveH Dec 26 2005, 06:17 PM

There are a couple places online that carry it, sorry, I don't recall who. You can try www.metalspecialty.com at 1-800-345-3140 or others. Depending on the grade of Ti, I'm guessing $500+. You'll want to research the various alloys, because pure titanium doesn't offer any real advantage to billet aluminum. It's the various alloys that make it the metal of choice for high end projects. It's a challenge to work with in terms of machining and welding, but you probably already know that. You might try calling Timet directly, to see if they can refer you, that’s what I did last time. For welding, I’d get one of the cheap bead blast cabinets from harbor freight, and turn it into an argon chamber. Sounds fun!

Posted by: McMark Dec 26 2005, 06:22 PM

Ahhh. Yeah. I figured, but, ya know. Gotta ask.

Posted by: sixnotfour Dec 26 2005, 07:17 PM

QUOTE

Titanium Plate Grade 2
Dimensions
Dimension Name Value
Thickness 3"

(Technical information is located at the bottom of the page)

Weight/square foot: 70.416 pounds

Select Size: 12 inches x 12 inches - $7,147.22

Onlinemetals.com
100bucks a pound and a piece that size is rare

Posted by: J P Stein Dec 26 2005, 07:47 PM

We have a 5000 lb forging at work from the Ruuskis....
96K.....shipping alone would have got you a used Boxster.
We'll mill it down to 800 lbs.
It's some new trick alloy. *Nobody* else wanted the job.
We gotta segragate the scrap & ship it back.
Ain't we "lucky".

Posted by: Travis Neff Dec 26 2005, 08:54 PM

sounds like it is one level under unobtainium, lol

Posted by: J P Stein Dec 27 2005, 07:31 AM

The whole freakin' airplane is made out of various forms of unobtainium. If you know of a manufacture that makes CF mat, buy their stock. Scarebus & the Lazy B are tying up most all of the supplies. We've got more than 300 of these sold....we haven't got any built yet......but that's not important now Anything touching CF structure & must be made of Ti.
Since most all of the structure is CF......

Posted by: DNHunt Dec 27 2005, 07:43 AM

This is a little off topic, but we use titanium pins in teeth. They are self tapping, threaded pins that shear at a score when they bottom in the pilot hole. They are something like 1/2 mm in diameter and 4 mm long. Oh ya they make a cool liight show in peoples mouths when you hit them with a diamond drill. We don't tell people about that.

Titanium implants are cool too.

Dave

Posted by: airsix Dec 27 2005, 11:41 AM

Try http://www.halperntitanium.com/. Family run and good pricing. Nice people to deal with. I get my 6AL/4VA sheet from them.

-Ben M.