Just made 40 Titanium spring wire clips

[rclint]

6AL-4V ELI 0.0620" diameter

the spring tension on these are amazing to say the least, I bought $60 worth from http://titaniumjoe.com/6al-4v%20round%20bars.htm

The are a V shape and the ends come out at a right andgle very short ends I will try to snap a pic

I have about 40 cent each in them, make 5 from one stick, they are about 4" long when in the V shape spring, about 4" wide at the base and will be compressed to less than an inch, talk about spring tension, from my dealing with aluminum this stuff is 1000% better for making spring type connections, and cheap from the other places I have seen as well.

I wil get a picture soon

[archimedes]

Greetings rclint,

Titanium is way cool stuff! I have also made some
Ti fingers for my parts. From your description yours
are very efficient. Would like to see your photos if
possible.
I don't know how the photos work in this forum . . . . .
I would post, but I don't know if it I do it here, locally
or in the Anodizing pictures thread . . . . . ?
Let me know how you post your pics, if you don't mind.

thanks,
archi

[rclint]

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Hope this helps, Clint

[rclint]

Here is a picture, hard to get the wire to show up well, white piece of paper seems to work

[archimedes]

clint,

Thanks for the help and the photos.
Your tension springs in Ti are a good
idea.

archi

[rclint]

Just done a 30 part run 100% perfect. that's the best I have ever done on these parts, I'm starting to think Titanium is by far the way to go, these small parts normaly kill me on rack time and then I always have several to fail.

More clips will be made for sure !!

Clint

[archimedes]

clint,

Congrats on your results.
And thanks for your pics--- I had a feeling
your springs would be similiar in mechanics
to mine. I am posting a pic of mine in
the construction phase thru finish phase.
thanks again for your help,
archi

[whistule]

Archimedes,

What on earth are you making there? Hope you don't mind me asking but it looks well cool!

[archimedes]

thanx for your compliment,

these are some of titanium fingers used in my anodizing
process. I use an aluminum "drawbar" to pull the solid ball
upward, expanding the fingers and gripping the ID of the part.
the beauty of titanium is its ability to spring to great dimensions
w/o undo affect. for instance the nominal dimension on the
finger is 5/8, but i have been able to grip ID's of almost 1 1/8"
and the fingers still spring back to 5/8 when released.
the picture you see is a trilogy of the start to finish
using 3 fingers in different states of the machining process.
below is a photo of the fingers installed on my ano rail.
but i also like Rclint's titanium wire finger as well -- as we have
enjoyed success using titanium in our own forms.

[ron83]

Know this is an older post but looking at getting some of the 6AL-4V ELI 0.0620" and wondering how is it holding up and is it still working good for those of you using it.


thanks
Ron83 - just started and already sick of aluminum wire