Titanium

Icebreaker

I need a sheet of titanium about 2mm thick, 50cmx50cm in area. This may seem an odd request, and it is, but where does one go to buy titanium?

Smurf

it grows in my back yard... actually.

Mk

Can you say E BAY?
http://search.ebay.com/search/search...rclo=&saprchi=

Smurf

You can buy Titanium on E BAY?

Icebreaker

Holy crap, you can actually buy titanium off ebay.

Pengwuino

oh my god what else can you buy on ebay.

*searches for plutonium*

Pengwuino

http://search.ebay.com/uranium-ore_W...sPageNameZWLRS

good enough

Found some copper sheeting too...

Gokul43201

I believe McMaster-Carr delivers to Canada.

www.mcmaster.com

Type "titanium" into the search box and take it from there.

Mk

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Icebreaker

Thanks! I'll look it over.

Mk

I like how this guy's picking it up.

devil-fire

i wonder how much http://www.mcmaster.com/ would charge for shipping? for a 24'x24'x0.063' sheet its $240 or$929.50 for strong stuff. thats 0.381mm thinner then 2mm and an extra 11cm longer on length/width

i live in a small manufacturing city so i can drive out to the industrial part and there are businesses who just order metal for you and ship it to your address, there have got to be a bunch of places that do that in Montreal that would be listed in he yellow pages but i have no idea what they would be under besides just 'metal'

what's your project though? from what i hear titanium is vary difficult to work with

Icebreaker

2 things: a killer robot and a chesk extensor. And I'm thinking of going with aluminium instead, athough it might not be as strong. The key factor is that it has to be strong and light.

FredGarvin

You may have better luck going with a age hardenable alloy of aluminum. It would be easier to work with, especially if you have to weld. I don't think you'd want to learn just how much fun a Ti fire can be first hand. But without knowing your design criteria, it's tough to give good recommendations.

If you're interested, start a thread in the engineering forum.

FredGarvin

McMaster has a fantastic web site and on-line ordering. If you give them a call, they will tell you in a heartbeat.

Gokul43201

There's also : http://www.rti-intl.com/ , which has a fab unit in Montreal, but I'm not sure they take small orders.