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2:56 pm
March 22, 2010
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I bought 75lbs of Ti scraps last week when I was picking up a machine.. Its all bar ends... Most 1 3/4 but a bit of 2 1/2".... short chunks... I want to make some tools and will get to a few things later... But I had a moment to day so I wanted to see how it would move and how much oxidation I would get doing a major reorientation of the material.. So I made a few crowbars... This was the second one, I thought it was interesting enough I would take a few pictures and share..
Started with 3.5" of 1 3/4 bar... Ended up with a 28" taper jimmy bar.. Seems to be portioned right, will pick up a 800lb block of steel with no ill affect... Just enough spring... Ti is FUN! On a side note its time intensive, I could have forged a couple of tool steel bars in 20 mins out of the same sized slugs, with cleanup.. Spent about 3 hours on forging and cleanup of the Ti... If you had some 3/4 or 1" bar stock of course it would be easy, but where is the fun in easy?
Lost about 3 grams to grinding and scale..
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln
5:58 am
March 18, 2010
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That's pretty cool Larry, fun stuff to forge, isn't it? Forges easy, but it sure lets you know when it's time to take another heat.
“There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot,
but then there are others who, with the help of their art and their intelligence,
transform a yellow spot into the sun.” ~ Pablo Picasso ~
9:50 pm
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March 22, 2010
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Yea it is cool stuff to forge. If the oxides and scale wasn't such a pain to clean I would be using it more.
4:42 am
March 22, 2010
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At the auction I was at today I got a chunk of Ti that is 2" round bar about 4' long... Gonna make a dandy crowbar
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln
11:52 pm
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April 22, 2010
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I saw John Rais do a demo forging titanium once, and he heated the whole thing up to a few hundred degrees, first, and rolled it in borax, like breading a chicken breast.
Every once in while while forging, he would re-borax the piece.
It really cut down on oxidisation.
Didnt affect the forging at all, in terms of making it any harder to see what you were doing.
Afterwards, he didnt do hardly any grinding- just a light bead blast.
He makes a lot of ladles, spoons, and vessels with titanium, and the borax trick makes it go pretty fast.
The other thing he said was that if you can, you should always get CP (commerical pure) titanium, as it forges much easier than any of the alloys.
4:29 am
March 22, 2010
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Right on Ries.... My next go I am surly going to try the borax trick.... The oxide layer is a real bugger.. I'll report back how it goes..
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln
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