Suggestions please !

They haven't any at B+Q or Screwfix, so who can supply a 18" x 3 " x
18 gauge strip of titanium ?

Thanks

Steve

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Suggestions please !

They haven't any at B+Q or Screwfix, so who can supply a 18" x 3 " x
18 gauge strip of titanium ?

Thanks


Try doing a simple Google search for titanium sheet. I got loads of
suppliers in different areas.


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Bob Mannix wrote:
"Steve" wrote in message
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Suggestions please !

They haven't any at B+Q or Screwfix, so who can supply a 18" x 3 " x
18 gauge strip of titanium ?

Thanks



Try doing a simple Google search for titanium sheet. I got loads of
suppliers in different areas.


Tried that, but the ones I spotted were looking at 600 x 2000 mm sheets...

Its the small pieces problem that has me beat. I can get industrial
quantities.

Steve

"Steve" wrote in message
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Bob Mannix wrote:
"Steve" wrote in message
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Suggestions please !

They haven't any at B+Q or Screwfix, so who can supply a 18" x 3 " x
18 gauge strip of titanium ?

Thanks



Try doing a simple Google search for titanium sheet. I got loads of
suppliers in different areas.


Tried that, but the ones I spotted were looking at 600 x 2000 mm sheets...

Its the small pieces problem that has me beat. I can get industrial
quantities.

Steve


E-mail to the makers will probably get you an off cut cheap enough.

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 00:16:16 GMT, BigWallop wrote:


"Steve" wrote in message
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Bob Mannix wrote:

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Try doing a simple Google search for titanium sheet. I got loads of
suppliers in different areas.


Tried that, but the ones I spotted were looking at 600 x 2000 mm sheets...

Its the small pieces problem that has me beat. I can get industrial
quantities.

Steve


E-mail to the makers will probably get you an off cut cheap enough.

I never cease to be amazed at the number of people who seem reluctant to
pick up the telephone and ask if it's possible to get hold of small
quantities from a supplier, but they're quite happy to ask here.

Wanderer wrote:


I never cease to be amazed at the number of people who seem reluctant to
pick up the telephone and ask if it's possible to get hold of small
quantities from a supplier, but they're quite happy to ask here.

I never cease to be amazed by people who make unwarranted assumptions -
a run on the phone got me prices of 200 quid MOQ from 5 stockists, 1 in
Manchester 4 in the Midlands. Hence I asked here as a last resort.

Steve

"Steve" wrote in message
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Suggestions please !

They haven't any at B+Q or Screwfix, so who can supply a 18" x 3 " x
18 gauge strip of titanium ?

Thanks

Steve


British Aerospace have got shed loads. Give them a call.

Hi Give your local Steel Stockist a call. Ask them who they supply, and
give them a call and see if they can supply you with a offcut ?
Stan the Man


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In article ,
Steve writes:

They haven't any at B+Q or Screwfix, so who can supply a 18" x 3 " x
18 gauge strip of titanium ?

Firstly, as I understand it, titanium comes in a variety of
grades. Are you attempting something like rocket science or does
this not matter as you only want the appearance? Titanium wa
quite expensive a few years back because so much of it was going
into sporting bats of one sort or another and the law of supply
and demand came into play. Depending on purity and grade you are
looking at UKP 1 per gram upwards in small quantity.

Newmet Koch 01922 703400

do all sorts of exotic metals. Depending on the metal, they go up
to six nines purity. Small orders no problem.

John Schmitt


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John Schmitt wrote:
In article ,
Steve writes:


They haven't any at B+Q or Screwfix, so who can supply a 18" x 3 " x
18 gauge strip of titanium ?


Firstly, as I understand it, titanium comes in a variety of
grades. Are you attempting something like rocket science or does
this not matter as you only want the appearance? Titanium wa
quite expensive a few years back because so much of it was going
into sporting bats of one sort or another and the law of supply
and demand came into play. Depending on purity and grade you are
looking at UKP 1 per gram upwards in small quantity.

Newmet Koch 01922 703400

do all sorts of exotic metals. Depending on the metal, they go up
to six nines purity. Small orders no problem.


John, Thanks for your help. The application is an ornamental one, so the
exact grade and putity is unimportant. Mostly I have been offered G5,
but I have no idea if that is good bad or indifferent. I want to
decorate the piece by anodising.

Steve

"Steve" wrote in message
.. .
John Schmitt wrote:
In article ,
Steve writes:


They haven't any at B+Q or Screwfix, so who can supply a 18" x 3 " x
18 gauge strip of titanium ?


Firstly, as I understand it, titanium comes in a variety of
grades. Are you attempting something like rocket science or does
this not matter as you only want the appearance? Titanium wa
quite expensive a few years back because so much of it was going
into sporting bats of one sort or another and the law of supply
and demand came into play. Depending on purity and grade you are
looking at UKP 1 per gram upwards in small quantity.

Newmet Koch 01922 703400

do all sorts of exotic metals. Depending on the metal, they go up
to six nines purity. Small orders no problem.


John, Thanks for your help. The application is an ornamental one, so the
exact grade and putity is unimportant. Mostly I have been offered G5,
but I have no idea if that is good bad or indifferent. I want to
decorate the piece by anodising.

Steve
Why get Titanium then coat it?


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Stan the Man wrote:

Why get Titanium then coat it?

Anodising isn't quite the same as coating. You still have the
same outer layer of titanium oxide, but you have dye molecules
diffused within the oxide layer, so it's coloured. It's just as
hard as it was before.

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Grunff wrote:
Stan the Man wrote:

Why get Titanium then coat it?


Anodising isn't quite the same as coating. You still have the same outer
layer of titanium oxide, but you have dye molecules diffused within the
oxide layer, so it's coloured. It's just as hard as it was before.

AFAIK, the anodic film on Ti is so thin you get optical interference
within the film, hence the colour ?

Steve

Stan the Man wrote:

Why get Titanium then coat it?


The colour effects are very neat, and the stuff is hypo allergenic.

Steve

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 19:54:21 +0000, Steve
wrote:

the stuff is hypo allergenic.

That depends who you ask ! Bit of a controversial claim at the
moment.

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