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WANTED: Titanium Pitons 4-Nov-2008 At 12:01:37 PM adrian
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On 4/11/2008 andesite wrote:
>
>The teeth aren't strong enough for hard ice - most used Ti ice screws
>I have seen have bent teeth, and not necessarily from bottoming out in
>rock.
>
>The machining on modern ice screws is precision - razor sharp teeth, tapered
>tubes, high profile threads - all easier to achieve with steel than titanium
>(which I understand is a bitch to machine).

Titanium is an amazing material - for the same weight part it will be stronger than steel (and way stronger than aluminium), which is why it is used in some high performance aircraft. But as mentioned, it is a complete bitch to machine - Australia is going through a large infrastructure development at the moment to build a capability for precision machining of titanium.

But all that is irrelevant to where to buy ti pitons - sorry.

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