On Fri, 30 Mar 2018 18:13:45 -0500, Martin Eastburn
wrote:

Use that new glue - called TIG or something like that :-)
Martin

Right, but even oil from your hands can embrittle a titanium weld. To
get a strong join, the provess is very exacting.

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Ed Huntress



On 3/27/2018 10:19 AM, Ed Huntress wrote:
OK, this one is pretty far out on the fringes, but if you've dabbled
with small pieces of titanium as I have, you may have faced the
frustration of not being able to weld it with practical methods.

It bonds quite well with epoxy, but there is a wide range of epoxy
performance with titanium. It can produce lap/sheer strength of up to
5,000 psi or so if you use the right materials.

Here are some test results from Master Bond, which does a lot of
specialty-adhesive development:

https://tinyurl.com/yaw6mdt7