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Title: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: Monsterlover on April 13, 2017, 07:42:44 AM
I just got stuck with a bunch of it.

3 pcs, 9 x 17 x 3/8
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: lethe on April 13, 2017, 08:07:03 AM
Quote from: Monsterlover on April 13, 2017, 07:42:44 AM
I just got stuck with a bunch of it.

3 pcs, 9 x 17 x 3/8
Nametags for us
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: Speeddog on April 13, 2017, 08:17:34 AM
Which flavor of Ti?
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: The Architect on April 13, 2017, 08:30:00 AM
Use one as a target and let us know how the ti holds up to the different calibers and types of bullets.
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: Popeye the Sailor on April 13, 2017, 08:46:39 AM
Hat brims.

(http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/86/73/f6/8673f6e6e6b1677c40197ec31975a715.jpg)
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: kopfjäger on April 13, 2017, 08:47:07 AM
Certainly not bottle openers.
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: Monsterlover on April 13, 2017, 09:09:55 AM
Quote from: Speeddog on April 13, 2017, 08:17:34 AM
Which flavor of Ti?

Grade 2

Quote from: lethe on April 13, 2017, 08:07:03 AM
Nametags for us

:D

Quote from: The Architect on April 13, 2017, 08:30:00 AM
Use one as a target and let us know how the ti holds up to the different calibers and types of bullets.

I'd kinda like to make some of my money back :P

Not a bad idea though.

Quote from: Satellite smithy on April 13, 2017, 08:46:39 AM
Hat brims.

(http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/86/73/f6/8673f6e6e6b1677c40197ec31975a715.jpg)

Of course you would want this.

How about Ti knuckles?

Quote from: kopfjäger on April 13, 2017, 08:47:07 AM
Certainly not bottle openers.

FFS send me your address.
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: 77south on April 13, 2017, 09:13:41 AM
Rearsets.  Custom rearsets, ideally 2 pairs one for my 06 M620D and one for my 2007 Sport 1000S.  [evil]
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: Monsterlover on April 13, 2017, 09:15:21 AM
[laugh]

I think 3/8 is probably not thick enough for that ;)
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: ducpainter on April 13, 2017, 09:22:05 AM
Quote from: Monsterlover on April 13, 2017, 09:09:55 AM


FFS send me your address.
You have mine. ;D
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: Popeye the Sailor on April 13, 2017, 09:23:07 AM
Quote from: Monsterlover on April 13, 2017, 09:09:55 AM

FFS send me your address.

Send him a glass cutter  [laugh]


I don't need any brass knuckles-I left management.
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: Speeddog on April 13, 2017, 09:32:32 AM
It would have been so much better if you had gotten 6Al-4V.
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: Speeddog on April 13, 2017, 09:36:45 AM
Quote from: Satellite smithy on April 13, 2017, 09:23:07 AM
~~~SNIP~~~
I don't need any brass knuckles-I left management.

He meant small sets for P and the kids, level up that playing field.
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: lethe on April 13, 2017, 09:39:22 AM
Quote from: Speeddog on April 13, 2017, 08:17:34 AM
Which flavor of Ti?
Grape
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: Monsterlover on April 13, 2017, 10:02:48 AM
Quote from: lethe on April 13, 2017, 09:39:22 AM
Grape

[laugh]
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: Speedbag on April 13, 2017, 10:39:17 AM
Quote from: kopfjäger on April 13, 2017, 08:47:07 AM
Certainly not bottle openers.

What ever happened to those?  ???
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: ducpainter on April 13, 2017, 11:11:32 AM
Quote from: Speedbag on April 13, 2017, 10:39:17 AM
What ever happened to those?  ???
We never hit the 50 orders he needed.
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: The Architect on April 13, 2017, 11:32:13 AM
Quote from: ducpainter on April 13, 2017, 09:22:05 AM
You have mine. ;D

I'll send you my address also.  I recall I have a pizza due to me.  I'll take a bottle opener in lieu. 
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: triangleforge on April 13, 2017, 11:53:21 AM
A friend with a water jet cutter at work made a bunch of these & gave me one, in (approximately) 3/8" stainless:

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2928/33976192186_783120146f_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/TLmSe1)2017-04-13_11-24-10 (https://flic.kr/p/TLmSe1) by triangleforge (https://www.flickr.com/photos/7138702@N03/), on Flickr

Ti would be cooler...

I like the rearsets idea, but you know better than I do what the capabilities of the material are.

A small titanium pry bar like this would be handy:

(http://www.cogentindustries.com/products/prymal/images/prymal-4.jpg)

Especially if you sold it with an incredibly over-wrought description like this: http://www.cogentindustries.com/products/prymal/ (http://www.cogentindustries.com/products/prymal/)
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: triangleforge on April 13, 2017, 11:59:31 AM
Are you able to do any bending operations on it, or will it just be cutting/stock removal?
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: Monsterlover on April 13, 2017, 12:10:50 PM
Quote from: triangleforge on April 13, 2017, 11:59:31 AM
Are you able to do any bending operations on it, or will it just be cutting/stock removal?

If something gets bent here we shit can it ;)

Quote from: triangleforge on April 13, 2017, 11:53:21 AM
A friend with a water jet cutter at work made a bunch of these & gave me one, in (approximately) 3/8" stainless:

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2928/33976192186_783120146f_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/TLmSe1)2017-04-13_11-24-10 (https://flic.kr/p/TLmSe1) by triangleforge (https://www.flickr.com/photos/7138702@N03/), on Flickr

Ti would be cooler...

I like the rearsets idea, but you know better than I do what the capabilities of the material are.

A small titanium pry bar like this would be handy:

(http://www.cogentindustries.com/products/prymal/images/prymal-4.jpg)

Especially if you sold it with an incredibly over-wrought description like this: http://www.cogentindustries.com/products/prymal/ (http://www.cogentindustries.com/products/prymal/)

Re the pry bar... But wait, there's more!
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: Grampa on April 13, 2017, 12:22:16 PM
a knee
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: Monsterlover on April 13, 2017, 12:40:49 PM
Quote from: Grampa on April 13, 2017, 12:22:16 PM
a knee

Just a knee?  Not a whole skeleton?
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: Speeddog on April 13, 2017, 12:43:03 PM
Quote from: Monsterlover on April 13, 2017, 12:10:50 PM
Re the pry bar... But wait, there's more!

Buy one, and for a *nominal* shipping and handling charge, we'll throw in a second one FREE!
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: Monsterlover on April 13, 2017, 12:51:04 PM
Quote from: Speeddog on April 13, 2017, 12:43:03 PM
Buy one, and for a *nominal* shipping and handling charge, we'll throw in a second one FREE!

[laugh]
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: Popeye the Sailor on April 13, 2017, 01:07:18 PM
Please to make a new and improved Toasty.

Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: DesmoDiva on April 13, 2017, 01:17:26 PM
Quote from: kopfjäger on April 13, 2017, 08:47:07 AM
Certainly not bottle openers.

[clap]
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: ZLTFUL on April 13, 2017, 02:12:35 PM
Wait...someone's making bottle openers? Count me in!











































;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: triangleforge on April 25, 2017, 08:59:33 PM
So what did you come up with?
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: Monsterlover on April 26, 2017, 02:16:02 AM
Nada. I haven't had time to think about it.

Kind of par for the course these days. ;)
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: ADG on April 26, 2017, 05:54:56 AM
Bottle opener.

https://scontent.fpac1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14563447_1037367183029212_9001952003078522772_n.jpg?oh=66bb218e4bd24ab04a5d324242c10052&oe=597A7E4C (https://scontent.fpac1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14563447_1037367183029212_9001952003078522772_n.jpg?oh=66bb218e4bd24ab04a5d324242c10052&oe=597A7E4C)
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: triangleforge on April 26, 2017, 07:09:55 AM
I do like that one!  [thumbsup]

Do you have a big customer who'd buy a promotional item (like, i dunno, a bottle opener?) with their logo machined on it? Might be able to recoup your costs and build a relationship at least.
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: herm on April 26, 2017, 09:23:13 AM
Quote from: ducpainter on April 13, 2017, 09:22:05 AM
You have mine. ;D

And mine!

How about a Ti container to use as a baked bean cannon?
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: ducpainter on April 26, 2017, 10:21:58 AM
Quote from: herm on April 26, 2017, 09:23:13 AM
And mine!

How about a Ti container to use as a baked bean cannon?

I think Ti plate might be difficult to roll into a cylinder.

That's not what Kev does, anyway. He makes chips. ;D
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: Howie on April 26, 2017, 12:54:11 PM
Hmmm...http://www.ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=75250.msg1382702#new   Except in titanium  ;D
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: kopfjäger on April 26, 2017, 01:08:36 PM
I'm in.  [thumbsup]
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: herm on April 26, 2017, 01:19:38 PM
I could REALLY use some replacement chain guards for my S2R1000. The plastic ones don't hold up very well to my often misplaced heal...

(http://houstonsuperbikes.com/images/F93017922.jpg)
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: NAKID on April 26, 2017, 01:23:37 PM
Quote from: Monsterlover on April 26, 2017, 02:16:02 AM
Nada. I haven't had time to think about it.

Kind of par for the course these days. ;)

That usually means that you are busy with work, which is a good thing right?
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: d3vi@nt on April 26, 2017, 09:27:07 PM
Moto related?

Maybe...
pee-cup brackets
heel guards
axle plates
swing-arm end caps (for DSS)
coffin brake/clutch covers
some kind of tail-tidy/license plate bracket or frame

No idea if any of the above is actually practical, though  ;)
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: Duck-Stew on April 27, 2017, 07:03:26 AM
Quote from: howie on April 26, 2017, 12:54:11 PM
Hmmm...http://www.ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=75250.msg1382702#new   Except in titanium  ;D

I'm in for a pair to fit a 25mm axle aluminum swingarm (2003 M1000S).
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: Monsterlover on April 27, 2017, 07:16:22 AM
Quote from: NAKID on April 26, 2017, 01:23:37 PM
That usually means that you are busy with work, which is a good thing right?

Too busy at the moment and just got word one of my key guys has an offer elsewhere that I can't match. I have the advantage in this race though so it's not a done deal yet.

Those knuckle bottle openers are cool. I'm not sure if 3/8 is thick enough for those but it might be.

The axle plates are really cool as well. I remember cursing the steel ones on my m900 when they twisted up and gouged the swing arm. Anyone have a stock adjuster they could send me for prototyping purposes?
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: DesmoDiva on April 27, 2017, 01:13:31 PM
We may.  I'll check with B.

The "track" bike is on blocks, can't remember if the rear wheel is off or not.
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: herm on April 27, 2017, 05:39:47 PM
How about a DMF logo thingy? Auctioned off to the highest bidder!
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: Monsterlover on April 27, 2017, 07:15:04 PM
DMF logo'd Ti knuckle openers?
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: Langanobob on April 28, 2017, 06:54:05 AM
Quote from: Monsterlover on April 27, 2017, 07:16:22 AM
Too busy at the moment and just got word one of my key guys has an offer elsewhere that I can't match. I have the advantage in this race though so it's not a done deal yet...

Ouch.  Hope this turns out OK.  I have a friend who teaches machine shop at our local community college.  He says the demand for his students is high and employers are lined up to hire them.  Looks like the manufacturing pendulum may be swinging back in the right direction.
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: lethe on April 28, 2017, 07:25:41 AM
Quote from: Monsterlover on April 27, 2017, 07:15:04 PM
DMF logo'd Ti knuckle openers?
DMF logo'd short swords.
A great and bloody battle next Dimby
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: Monsterlover on April 28, 2017, 07:27:06 AM
[laugh]
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: ducpainter on April 28, 2017, 10:47:46 AM
Quote from: Monsterlover on April 27, 2017, 07:16:22 AM
Too busy at the moment and just got word one of my key guys has an offer elsewhere that I can't match. I have the advantage in this race though so it's not a done deal yet.


You can't afford not to match it...somehow.
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: Monsterlover on April 28, 2017, 11:16:26 AM
Pretty much
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: ZLTFUL on April 28, 2017, 04:53:24 PM
DMF logoed crankshaft covers? I have one of the Hoosier Hooligan ones along with the "other" style one I can send you for prototyping...
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: Monsterlover on April 30, 2017, 03:39:01 AM
Quote from: ZILBERT on April 28, 2017, 04:53:24 PM
DMF logoed crankshaft covers? I have one of the Hoosier Hooligan ones along with the "other" style one I can send you for prototyping...

That would work. However, Stradafab makes those and I don't want to compete against Randy.
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: ducpainter on April 30, 2017, 03:42:51 AM
Quote from: Monsterlover on April 30, 2017, 03:39:01 AM
That would work. However, Stradafab makes those and I don't want to compete against Randy.
He's making them with a DMF logo?
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: Monsterlover on April 30, 2017, 03:48:12 AM
Quote from: ducpainter on April 30, 2017, 03:42:51 AM
He's making them with a DMF logo?

Likely not, but if someone wants a Ti cover he'd be the place to get it. I don't want to take any food off his table.

On the other hand, is not like we're talking thousands of covers. I'll send him an email.

I do have at least a little honor.
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: ducpainter on April 30, 2017, 03:54:38 AM
Quote from: Monsterlover on April 30, 2017, 03:48:12 AM
Likely not, but if someone wants a Ti cover he'd be the place to get it. I don't want to take any food off his table.

On the other hand, is not like we're talking thousands of covers. I'll send him an email.

I do have at least a little honor.
If he was still a sponsor, I'd be more likely to care about him losing a few covers. You continue to sponsor here, and participate.

Plenty of companies make, have made, Duc crankshaft covers.

Ask if you want, just don't give him the idea it's OK for him to use our logo.
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: Monsterlover on April 30, 2017, 04:56:41 AM
Quote from: ducpainter on April 30, 2017, 03:54:38 AM
If he was still a sponsor, I'd be more likely to care about him losing a few covers. You continue to sponsor here, and participate.

Plenty of companies make, have made, Duc crankshaft covers.

Ask if you want, just don't give him the idea it's OK for him to use our logo.

I see where you're going there. He wouldn't use the logo without asking.

I'll have to figure out how to convert the logo into something I can machine from. I wonder if there's a bmp to dxf converter...
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: Langanobob on May 03, 2017, 10:08:51 AM
If I had a spare 3/8" titanium plate and a dandy camping trailer like the one in your other thread I'd make a lightweight bacon griddle.
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: Monsterlover on May 03, 2017, 11:11:07 AM
 :D
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: MendoDave on May 04, 2017, 07:01:01 PM
Titanium BBQ utensils with the DMF logo. Or some Tent Stakes for hiking and camping.

I like the idea of the swing arm adjusters the best, even though I dont own a Monster or even a Super Sport anymore.
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: herm on May 04, 2017, 07:22:57 PM
Ballistic armor to protect against the Bean!
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: Grampa on May 05, 2017, 12:48:33 AM
A Cameo inspired Moto friendly codpiece. (With DMF logo water jetted into it.)
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: Monsterlover on May 05, 2017, 09:42:54 AM
Who has the original file for that DMF logo?

I'm not having any luck with just downloading the image off the website...

Also, if anyone has an axle plate. . .send it.
Title: Re: What can I make out of 3/8 Titanium plate?
Post by: stopintime on May 05, 2017, 09:59:57 AM
Not the biggest market for it, I guess, but I do need a new and better bracket for my Termis  8)

(http://i329.photobucket.com/albums/l394/stopintime/Eksos%20brakett_zpsyf4pefco.jpg)