Titanium brew gear

[Dave70]

The aerospace industrie and motorcycle accessories are the only legit uses for pretty titanium. End of.

 

[scooterism]

Ok, enough of the titanium stuff, I wanna hear about the CIA business..

 

[malt junkie]

Ok, enough of the titanium stuff, I wanna hear about the CIA business..

We'll I'm with you there but I think if he just announced the reason nationally he would resolve the issue. I mean they can't watch everyone in the country can they??

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

I actually know a bloke who does some work with the CIA......


True story......but a very boring story

 

[Lyrebird_Cycles]

I think I'm already on the CIA watchlist for some of the things I've been looking up relating to this
[don't laugh, I AM on a CIA watchlist for other technical reasons - don't ask how I know - it's part of the reason ]

If you really want to get yourself on a watchlist quickly, send a few requests for information on availability of Zirconium tubing.

On a slightly related note: I use boron fibre* in the bikes. It's only made by one company in the US and before they'd let me buy any I literally had to sign a declaration that I would not re-sell it to North Korea.

*It's a bit like carbon fibre but stronger in compression, has better acoustic properties and is about 8 times the price.

 

[GibboQLD]

If you really want to get yourself on a watchlist quickly, send a few requests for information on availability of Zirconium tubing.

But Officers, I swear I'm only making a small reactor for personal use!

 

[Lyrebird_Cycles]

You've probably heard the story of David Hahn, if not Google "radioactive boy scout"

 

[sp0rk]

The aerospace industrie and motorcycle accessories are the only legit uses for pretty titanium. End of.

We used a little bit for industry specific heating elements
The company I did my engineering design traineeship for had a 6M length of large diameter Ti tube sitting up on the storage mezzanine while I worked there (about 11 years ago)
I was told they got it super cheap and were hanging onto it until the titanium price peaked (it was up over $25/kg scrap price back then) then they were going to sell it

 

[Mardoo]

You've probably heard the story of David Hahn, if not Google "radioactive boy scout"

I'm inspired. I'm going to build a self-heating brew kettle with a fissionable uranium element.