[TheForge] Titanium

[Chuck Robinson]

The stories I heard about their construction techniques were pretty awesome.
The Titanium sub hulls were welded, single pass, in an inert gas facility.
 The welders supposedly wore a type of space suit when the were working on 
the sub.
On the other end of the spectrum, after the break up, I was investigating 
the possible purchase of Titanium pressure hulls for deep ocean oceanic 
instrumentation..
The company I was talking to, said no problem they would forge out a solid 
billet of Ti and core drill it to spec dimension. They had a very large 
supply of Ti.
Chuck

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ries Niemi" <rniemi at fidalgo.net>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Titanium


>
> The russians made several subs out of titanium- I think most have been 
> decommissioned, though. Giant irradiated hunks of death- I am pretty sure 
> the biggest sub ever made was one of the titanium subs.
> http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/row/rus/705.htm
> The russian titanium industry was built to supply these, and their space 
> program. When the USSR crashed, cheap titanium from russia flooded the 
> market, and all kinds of stuff became available in titanium that was just 
> out of the question before- bike pedals and ballpoint pens.
>
> ries
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