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rokspydr

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who can heat treat titanium? I made a skinner out of some and would like to have it done.

Marc
 
rokspydr said:
who can heat treat titanium? I made a skinner out of some and would like to have it done.

Marc
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If you tell me what variety of alloy you have, I'll see if I can find the heat treating info on it and tell you how to heat treat it.

Jim Arbuckle:
 
Much Ti is not HTable.Some alloys gain a little.I am afraid you will not be happy with the edge holding of a skinner made from Ti.The plus is it won't rust.After field testing or cut testing it,let us know how it held up.
 
yoy need beta ti. you can ht that but it wont get really hard. 6al4v is alpha/beta its semiheattreatable kinda
 
OK so forget Ti i am making a machete I was thinking L6,A2 or D2 which is stronger and beter at holding an edge? My friend work's for a steel company and he has all of them I just don't know which is right? figure blade 15" 1/4" think and 4 or 5" wide

Thank's,
Marc
 
If you plan to do your own heat treating and you don't have access to expensive high-fallutin' temp controls, then ask your buddy for some L6. If you plan to send it out for HT or if you have the high-tech stuff, then any of them will be dandy.

With proper HT, L6 will have better impact resistance than the other two. With proper HT, D2 will have better wear resistance than the other two. With proper HT, A2 will have better wear resistance than L6 and better impact resistance than D2.

Without proper HT, rebar or railroad spikes would be just as good as any of them.
 
A 15'' long, 1/4'' thick, 4 - 5" wide blade is going to be very heavy.

I have a couple of old cane knives that are 15" long, 4'' wide and just under 1/16'' thick, very light weight, they seem to be made from plain carbon steel and work very, very good.

I would use the L6 but not so thick.
 
I will be sending it out to get HT. If A2 is stronger than L6 why is everyone recomending L6


Marc
 
L6 can take a beating where A2 or D2 may break, it really depends on heat treating but L6 is much tougher than the others. The higher the alloy, the less thoughness. L6 is low alloy with the addition of nickel which adds even more toughness.
 
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