Home
What's new
Latest activity
Authors
Store
Latest reviews
Search products
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New listings
New products
New profile posts
Latest activity
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
Cart
Cart
Loading…
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Search titles only
By:
Menu
Log in
Register
Navigation
Install the app
Install
More options
Change style
Contact us
Close Menu
Forums
SVTPerformance's Chain of Restaurants
Road Side Pub
SR-71 Blackbird fun facts
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="James Snover" data-source="post: 16310557" data-attributes="member: 67454"><p>And there was the story of discovering Titanium's one great weakness: Chlorine. At some point an engineer and the fabrication guys were on the assembly line. The engineer is trying to show the fab guys what he wants, so he grabs a sheet of titanium, and using a straight edge and a ball point pen, inscribes a line across the titanium sheet. It was a nice,fancy pen, with a chlorine based ink. Seconds later, the panel splits in half, right along the line of the ink. Turns out Titanium is very reactive with chlorine. Seeing that, one of the guys remarks, "You know, it's summertime. And the city always puts extra chlorine in the water, in the summer time. And we just washed this one bird, and she's in the air, right now!" A frantic radio call later, the crew are instructed to land their aircraft immediately, making no maneuvers of any excess amount of g-force, as gently as possible, no explanation given. They do so, successfully. The crew chief goes out, finds the very irate crew, still in their pressure suits, walks up to a panel, taps it, and it falls to the ground. Chlorine.</p><p></p><p>I don't know what magic of metallurgy and chemistry allowed them to overcome this. But early Titanium had a real problem with Chlorine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Snover, post: 16310557, member: 67454"] And there was the story of discovering Titanium's one great weakness: Chlorine. At some point an engineer and the fabrication guys were on the assembly line. The engineer is trying to show the fab guys what he wants, so he grabs a sheet of titanium, and using a straight edge and a ball point pen, inscribes a line across the titanium sheet. It was a nice,fancy pen, with a chlorine based ink. Seconds later, the panel splits in half, right along the line of the ink. Turns out Titanium is very reactive with chlorine. Seeing that, one of the guys remarks, "You know, it's summertime. And the city always puts extra chlorine in the water, in the summer time. And we just washed this one bird, and she's in the air, right now!" A frantic radio call later, the crew are instructed to land their aircraft immediately, making no maneuvers of any excess amount of g-force, as gently as possible, no explanation given. They do so, successfully. The crew chief goes out, finds the very irate crew, still in their pressure suits, walks up to a panel, taps it, and it falls to the ground. Chlorine. I don't know what magic of metallurgy and chemistry allowed them to overcome this. But early Titanium had a real problem with Chlorine. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
SVTPerformance's Chain of Restaurants
Road Side Pub
SR-71 Blackbird fun facts
Top