Direct me to the photos of the steel prototypes please.
I don't think I will post those until I have a more fully finished proto. I am going however to post the
Heavy Metal keys that I mentioned a really long time ago. They sound like you are using a mallet to type with! ROFL XD
To Nonmouse-Not usually, most of the alloyed (as in non CP grades) are more expensive with some of them being many, many times more expensive.
I almost feel like you are trying to test my working experience here, perhaps you just happen to have a bit more of an active curiousity than others. So I will indulge a little bit more but then I would like to get slightly more back on track in the thread, I hope you understand, but this thread is hard enough to follow as is =P
We commonly use and consider CP Ti (the first four grades) as essentially a base pure component. The reason for this has to do with the with its reasonable strain (or lack of strain) on the crystaline lattice work of the base metal. If for some reason you want to be an unreasonable stickler for purity then you are stuck with Kroll sponge in a labratory. Of what use that is, well...
You have to understand that alloying is not a linear process in most cases. So CP when compared to other alloys even if its only a small percentage or a fraction thereof you can end up with something almost unrecognizable in practice.
As far as using what you called alloy 38 (which I am almost sure is a military grade shock resistent alloy), don't forget when working with such alloys that you can easily alter their properties unintentionally! So when I am doing a demo with a student or other interested party, you bet I am only letting them start with CP. As few things are more painful then watching your Ti and composite components weakened to a useless mess, that's just not right XD
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