Tungsten Scrape Plates??
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Re: Tungsten Scrape Plates??
Titanium is the ideal material for a scrape plate if your looking for something that will through more and brighter sparks and last longer.....
Magnesium and Tungsten are not ideal and I wouldnt use either of them...Like mentioned Tungsten is brittle, and nobody mentioned but Mag is very sensitve to the elements and needs to be painted....If any bare Mag is exposed it will corrode very fast, and once it start to corrde it also becomes very brittle....
Bottom line Ti is what you want....
Magnesium and Tungsten are not ideal and I wouldnt use either of them...Like mentioned Tungsten is brittle, and nobody mentioned but Mag is very sensitve to the elements and needs to be painted....If any bare Mag is exposed it will corrode very fast, and once it start to corrde it also becomes very brittle....
Bottom line Ti is what you want....
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Re: Tungsten Scrape Plates??
yes tungsten is radioactive and is too hard for a scrape plate, it will shatter on contact .. try hitting a plate of tungsten with a hammer see what happens.. i work in a fab shop and jonnyp ti will not last longer but does though some amazing lookin sparks and you can drill and tap easly with the right stuff find a friend that will help you couse a fab shop will rip ya off
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Re: Tungsten Scrape Plates??
yes tungsten is radioactive and is too hard for a scrape plate, it will shatter on contact .. try hitting a plate of tungsten with a hammer see what happens.. i work in a fab shop and jonnyp ti will not last longer but does though some amazing lookin sparks and you can drill and tap easly with the right stuff find a friend that will help you couse a fab shop will rip ya off
It is a bitch to cut, drill and tap compared to steel... 
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Re: Tungsten Scrape Plates??
heat it to make it last longer, cause it does get harder with heat.
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Re: Tungsten Scrape Plates??
lots of great minds in this thread
...so according to all of you, it's hard to drill TIT () without ******* it up(makin it harder/softer)
wat about welding it to steel?
...so according to all of you, it's hard to drill TIT (
) without ******* it up(makin it harder/softer)wat about welding it to steel?
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Re: Tungsten Scrape Plates??
never had to weld ti or tungsten yet but there may be another way to fuze them together Last edited by burnsy; Jan 6, 2008 at 09:19 PM.
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but careful, she might come on stuntlife and complain about you.
