I was recently gifted a crash-damaged titanium exhaust tailpipe, and toying with the idea of making some bitchin' cup holders for MonZora. So the question is: does silicon-bronze filler stick to Ti?
I was recently gifted a crash-damaged titanium exhaust tailpipe, and toying with the idea of making some bitchin' cup holders for MonZora. So the question is: does silicon-bronze filler stick to Ti?
I'm reasonably certain I just saw a thread about that on here within the last week or so.
In reply to Toyman! :
I haven't watched the video linked in that thread, but there's no mention of Titanium in the thread itself.
In reply to AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) :
Short answer is no. Longer answer is....eh. sort of.
You're better off buying a large and I do mean LARGE cup and setting up a make shift trailing gas setup and using proper titanium filler rod. There's places you can buy pieces in like 10 packs for 10-15 bucks for Ti filler, so you don't have to drop $100 on a pound of the stuff.
The medium answer is you can silver braze it...and it works OK, but again... thats an actual brazing rod, not a tig brazing process. They *may* have a silver based brazing rod for tig out there...im not sure. Ive only ever TIG welded with proper filler rod. Being said.... It'll fight you like welding on cast iron and be VERY prone to cracking and embrittlement issues if you try to skirt doing things the proper way. Its a finicky material to deal with, without having the right stuff to either back purge and trailing cup it, or welding it in an enclosed purged environment. Doing it open air with just a big cup and no back purge is asking for problems.
Ti is like stainless, but also not at all like stainless. With proper prep and procedure, it's a neat material to weld with some interesting properties. With improper procedure... it'll fight you every step of the way.
In reply to GaryC83 :
Sounds like my crashed Ti exhaust may just be wall art then. Thanks for the detailed reply!
In reply to AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) :
Don't let me discourage you from using it... there's other alternatives like various panel bonding agents and such that could easily be brought into play to make something like you're thinking of. And for challenge budgets, if you only use say 1/10th of the tube at $40 a tube.. it only counts for 4 bucks, right?
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