Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/27

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: LUG metallurgist
From: Dennis Painter <dennis@hale-pohaku.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 10:04:04 -0700
References: <5E002EC4-C021-11D7-8A28-0003938C439E@btinternet.com> <3F23EBDC.1A7873EA@hale-pohaku.com> <3F23F00E.2D3A22EE@pacbell.net>

Jerry Lehrer wrote:

> Dennis
>
> Only a few of the Ti alloys are superplastic, but you will find that
> the tooling required makes it prohibitively too expensive for  camera
> use.  Best to save it for aerospace materials (and race cars, of course).
>
> Jerry

Yes, but ever notice what was prohibitive yesterday is feasible tomorrow.

Bests,
Dennis


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