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Old 11-10-2008, 01:02 PM
Brian Carlton Brian Carlton is offline
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Originally Posted by Dee8go View Post
I heard someone say that some people are using titanium to make jewellery like wedding rings out of. If it's THAT precious, I would think it would be out of the question for ordinary air plane props.
They do it for the color. It's a cross between silver and gold as far as color is concerned. It's not a precious metal. Jet engines use quite a bit of the material up in the front. It can't take any high temperatures so anything behind the fan and LP compressor can't be produced with titanium...........inconel then becomes dominant.
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