Probably much better sources than wikipedia, not bad for menial trivia, but hardly a respected establishment for exact truths. How do we prove that the info in the article is right? We need more proof to prove the prvious proof.
If there is anything I can validate here it's this, OF will argue point/semantics, until you just want to stop coming to a forum. Be the bigger guy, just let G "lie", you don't have to believe it, and we don't need you to protect us from the Big Bad W9Tech. Go create another thread like has already been said before.
OK, fine, show me a source that conflicts. Be assured I didn't learn my Material Science from the web, I got it the old fashioned way. I just put some references up to back up my statements, something I don't see you or the other nay sayers doing? Show me wrong?
I won't back down because you don't like what I say and can't find any logical argument past 'go away and stop bothering folks'. I've said I believe it's totally appropriate to respond to such claims made here and pointed to the rules which call for makers to generally avoid such talk and to be '100% sure' before hand, an entirely different standard than you or I as regular Members.
There is no 'game' I'm playing, I'm expressing my honest opinion and the facts behind it. I've never met your wife and AFAIK have no relationship to her.
I'm happy to defend my views and believe what I'm saying is true. You might think G is lying, I don't. Just saying some misleading things. If you think I'm out of line, please report it rather than take personal shots?
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OF grades 1 and 2 are easily available to the general public then grades 3 and 4 since they are harder to find and obtain. That is why grade 2 is used since it's the best that companies can get in large quantities.
As for your engineering skills please tell me what is in grade 5 that can conduct electricity and what is in grade 2 that can. If you can point that out ill eat my words.
In fact titanium is a bad conductor of electricity. But aluminum is a very good conductor. Guess what grade of Ti has aluminum?
Cool. Are we agreed that it's likely grade 2 (not 5) that others are using? FWIW IIRC you have to vacuum smelt the Ti to get rid of included Oxygen to get to higher grades, which is indeed expensive. No need to pay for that if you don't need it (which we don't here I think).
It's not true to say Ti can't conduct electricity (I assume it's a typo above and that's what you meant to say?), like all metals it does fairly well. Or even bad without qualifying, it being very similar to other metals. The difference isn't really all that large, pure Ti is about
three times higher in resistance than grade 5, but many materials commonly used for heater elements are higher. Like Stainless Steels. Nichrome, for instance, is a worse conductor and widely used as a heater? It calls, of course, for appropriate gauge and length of the wire used, but the fact is that if there was no resistance there'd be no heat.
http://www.ndt-ed.org/GeneralResources/MaterialProperties/ET/Conductivity_Ti.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_resistivity_and_conductivity
If I misread your question and you really did want to know why both grade 2 and grade 5 can conduct electricity the answer is 'because their valance (outer most) electrons can be easily moved from atom to atom'? Just like in other metals.
Anyway, those were the rules when I went to school. I've no reason to think they've changed?
OF
That fucker was made right!
