Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have been told that titanium is no more coslty than steel, and not any more difficult to machine. Dan C. At 01:03 PM 19-09-98 -0600, you wrote: >>Mark Walberg wrote: >>> >>> So,then, the titanium ones are titanium over brass? Why do they have >>> to make them titanium over brass instead of straight titanium. >> >>I can think of two reasons: First, titanium is a difficult material to >>work with. I don't know for sure, but I suspect that making lens >>barrels out of the stuff is not the easiest task to tackle. >>Secondly, Leica equipment is quite expensive enough. If they were to >>make lenses out of pure titanium, the end product would probably have >>a price tag larger than some smaller countries' fiscal budget. >>Not to mention what the price of a lens hood would be... ;) >>Martin V. Howard, Application Systems Laboratory, | >>Dept. of Comp. & Info. Sci., Linkoping University, | Just DOHH it! >>SE-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden. Tel +46 13 282 421, +----------------+ >>Fax +46 13 142 231; marho@ida.liu.se; www.ida.liu.se/~marho > >Well, maybe Martin. However, many bicycles have titanium parts. Pedal >axles, various bolts, even whole frames are built and machined from >titanium. They have become very popular. Such frames contain a few pounds >of titanium. -Mark Walberg > > > >