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<blockquote data-quote="livetohunt" data-source="post: 1801340" data-attributes="member: 100535"><p>Ti round stock costs about $30-$35 a pound. It can be hard on tools, but realistically its not much worse on tools than 17-4ph. It takes longer to machine. It definitely has weight savings, which should be the only driving factor. If your making a 10+lb gun, theres zero reason to go titanium. As far as differences in cooling... tool steel cools .000006" per inch per degree. Titanium is slightly more stable than that as far as heat goes. Companies that make Ti actions obviously pressure test them.</p><p></p><p>DLC coating is what most companies I have made parts for like to use when you have different materials sliding together. There are lots of titanium-steel interfacing pieces in the medical industry, and the DLC coating on both makes them glide like butter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="livetohunt, post: 1801340, member: 100535"] Ti round stock costs about $30-$35 a pound. It can be hard on tools, but realistically its not much worse on tools than 17-4ph. It takes longer to machine. It definitely has weight savings, which should be the only driving factor. If your making a 10+lb gun, theres zero reason to go titanium. As far as differences in cooling... tool steel cools .000006" per inch per degree. Titanium is slightly more stable than that as far as heat goes. Companies that make Ti actions obviously pressure test them. DLC coating is what most companies I have made parts for like to use when you have different materials sliding together. There are lots of titanium-steel interfacing pieces in the medical industry, and the DLC coating on both makes them glide like butter. [/QUOTE]
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