Question on MIM

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dialex

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Hello friends,

I was wondering if the MIM technology is restricted to steel only, or it can be applied as well to other materials, like titanium.
No, I'm not thinking titanium blades, but handles (or parts of the handles).

Thank you in advance for the infos.
 
The best way is to cast titanium if your not machining it from Billet. Lost Wax is the most common way of casting titanium parts. If you look at Oakley's Titanium X-Frame sun glasses they are cast this way. Keep looking you may see a titanium-composite blade one day...
 
Ionbond said:
The best way is to cast titanium if your not machining it from Billet. Lost Wax is the most common way of casting titanium parts. If you look at Oakley's Titanium X-Frame sun glasses they are cast this way. Keep looking you may see a titanium-composite blade one day...
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I didn't see any info about MIMed but......

Michael Walker - Titanium Composit Blade - circa 1990
www.freepatentsonline.com/4896424.html (this link is being buggy about opening)
here is another link. http://www.wikipatents.com/4896424.html
Which knife is this? I don't remember it?
I know it's not a Kershaw, but who's???


from link
2. The cutting blade recited in claim 1 wherein said body means is 6 AL 4V titanium and said cutting edge means is CPM-T 44V high carbon stainless steel.

This reads as if the body is the actual body/handle of the knife??
Or do they mean the body of the blade?

If body is handle then this is the Superliner.

Someone help me figure this out please.

Since this isn't the Kershaw forum, I have to say Kershaw 3 times real fast. :)

Kershaw Kershaw Kershaw!

mike
 
A new composite cutting blade for a knife or other cutting instrument and a novel method of making the blade. The blade is formed from a body section made of a strong tough material formed with a dovetail configuration along one edge thereof and a cutting edge section made of a hard durable material that has a matching dovetail configuraion along one edge. The body and cutting edge sections are joined by press fitting the two dovetail edges together and then peening the joint.

The Walker composite is joined by two dovetailed parts and then peened together. the Kershaw blades are straight cut using a puzzle pattern and brazed.
 
Ionbond said:
The best way is to cast titanium if your not machining it from Billet. Lost Wax is the most common way of casting titanium parts. If you look at Oakley's Titanium X-Frame sun glasses they are cast this way. Keep looking you may see a titanium-composite blade one day...
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Problem is that casting titanium leaves holes in the material (like it happens to the handles of the BM42) and I'd like to avoid this.
 
Not if it goes through a hipping process.
 
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