Not kidding, such decades old KZfaq videos are some of the most informative content I have ever seen!

There's my dad at 4:20 no joke. He gave me one of those titanium "buttons" before.

Was a crane operator at TIMET back in the 80's. This brings back memories.

Wow I have a new respect for the metal that's in my hip!

Very informative video!

I work in the Melt shop at Timet and also worked in VDP, the Godless creation that bought the company has since torn down many buildings and shuttered VDP. We get all our sponge from Japan now

@solverh The X-15 was an amazing piece of flight hardware but it was an experimental air craft and was never used in regular service. BTW, the X-15s' air frame was made of an Inconel alloy. Cheers

love the work here

Titanium is my favorite metal!

Ive read in multiple bike magzines, from jeff jones, and from other people in the industry that the mass produced titanium bikes (not custom) usually use a form of x-ray welding.

that aircraft is over 30 years and looks like it should be designed and build todays date.. and still are one of the fastest.. amazing.

Titanium is the perfect metal, low density, high strength and hardness, extremely corrosion resistant, nonmagnetic, high melting point, common in the earth's soil, what's making it so damn expensive is the Manufacturing Process.

@trespire Thanx for your wonderful response :)

0:55 actually (i dont know if this is true) the heat from friction is minimal. The main portion of the heat comes from compressing the air.

to weld titanium used for bike frames (most of the time) They either use an airtight thing, or x-ray welding. I have spoken with jones from jones bikes at interbike, and thats what I have learned

@sleeper393 Electron beam welding is the most common in the aerospace industry. The welding is done in a vacuum chamber.

Wow, thats incredible and it takes sooo much work. Think about what you are doing when you throw away metal products like aluminum cans, or that lithium batteries in your old phones or even a metal folding chair. RECYCLE as much as possible. They should really start turning plastic back into oil too.

Titanium is such a cool metal. Many types out there. Ti 6-4 which is used for most of the aerospace parts. There's another that you'll see Ti 6-2-4-2. Ti 6-4 is 6% Aluminium, 4% Valadium and 90% Titanium. Ti 6-2-4-2 is 6% Alum, 2% Moly, 4% Zirconium 2% Tin. It's non-magnetic and needs recycled.

The compact bricks are welded together with plasma torches...in a backfilled argon Chamber.... this becomes an electrode.... that's melted into a vacuum furnace becoming a 20,000 lb ingot then transferred over to a forging furnace!

Jones bikes, Moots, and a lot of other high end titanium bike companies like linksey and merlin use it. I have 4 chromium/molybdenium infused steel bikes that I ride now.

if gold [most malleable metal] plus titanium [strong metal that is very resistant to corrosion] = best armor?

If they press it into sheets how does the Bugatti veyron have one big engine block and other parts made of it?

This wonderful elemental metal is created during the explosion of a star called a supernova.

Almost every Fighter Jet in the post Vietnam/Cold War era is made from Titanium. The F111, F4 Phantom, F14 Tomcat, F15 Eagle, F16 Falcon, F18 Hornet, F22 Raptor, and F35 Lightning are all made from Ti. Other Countries still struggle today to manufacturer high purity elemental Titanium. The explosion and subsequent meltdown of the #4 reactor at the Chernobyll nuclear power station was the result of many many things all going wrong in exactly the right order. However, it must be noted that the Soviet Union was unable to produce high purity Uranium 235 fuel for their reactor cores. The contaminants within the isotope created wildly random spikes in reactivity. These fluctuations in reactor made it incredibly unstable at times when it was being run at low power. Building up Xenon that wasn't being burned away. When the Chernobyl crew ran a test of the emergency back up cooling system after being run at a low output level for too long, combines with extreme negligence on the operators part, the core exploded. It was by sheer luck later on when the fuel melted down into a series of full bubbler pools of water below the reactor which they all thought were empty. The steam explosion would have sent the remaining fissioning reactor core into super critical mass and there would have been a 3-5 megaton nuclear explosion. So because of their inability to purify uranium effectively because of the sheer cost and labor involved to do so, it almost made half the planet radio active and uninhabitable for humans for many hundreds of years at least. My point is that refining Titanium is very costly and labor intensive. Many Nations simply can't do it on a large scale, and in this area Americas ability to refine Titanium is second to none, and we have no equal on this planet in air combat superiority. God Bless America!

sometimes, it depends on the quality of the tubing

[0:09] “…the fastest aircraft ever built!” Hmm, impressive as Blackbird is, still the X-15 actually could go a lot faster. The SR-71 may be the fastest endurance plane, but it sure isn’t the fastest ever built.

@uzerofutube its incredibly undevalued atm, I have just bought a fine .999 1oz bar for £10 off ebay. Crazy cheap when you think how much gold is per oz. Ti could be the next 'precious' metal IMO

Wow, big contrast with steel making. With iron it's just like BURN BABY BURN!, everything in the Ti production process seems so much smaller and controlled by comparison

I am preparing for an engineering report with the topic of "Titanium manufacturing". Do you know any sources that might help?

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Wait a minute.... it takes all this work to make Ti? So, how in the world anyone discovered it in the first place?

@drakio99 they "make" 88 mill, yes, but they probably spend 60 million on all the chemicals and mining proccess, so it's only a 20-40 million dollar company if I had to guess..

could you use a spray welding just like a plasma cuter or laser and use the dust as the filler ... and then, if that worked, you could use the brain from 3D printer, to controll welder heads and then print the parts out. that would short cut the middle prosess,, i just say think about it, im trying to think outside the box.

@Fortispectus Yes, you are indeed right, its one of the most common elements, IN UNIVERSE! NOT IN EARTH

if you want to weld up a bike frame of anything else out of Ti, you can do the Tig process or Mig weld. you'll need some inert gas shielding, like helium or argon. you don't want oxygen contamination in the weld-it will substantially weaken it. don't believe these people who say it is so complicated - they need some excuse to charge rediculous sums for the bikes, probably by a factor of 100x. why x-ray a bike frame weld - I doubt it. its not like its in a nuclear reactor.

I was also told they used Sodium which would be a quicker process but more dangerous.

first introduced to service in 1964, i believe.

Kinda scary that the actual top speed of the SR-71 is still classified to this day. Makes me wonder that, since it was retired, what exactly did they replace it with?

I meant that x-ray welding is used for titanium welds

im a tiger...RAAWWRRR!!!!!!!!!!!

@TitaniumLSRP - No! - I'm Titanium !

lol I am talking about a bike, not a motorcycle, silly. I didnt even know that there were titanium motorcycles.

Is titanium the strongest metal ever?

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who else is here from the elon musk joe rogan episode

x-ray welding is what they usually use for bike manufacturing

lol the editing is so over the top

Henderson Nevada is where over 9 million pounds of space rocket fuel blew up in the 1980s

Oooh yeah now i remenber that Oxygen must be taken away from any welding process that's why they use that special wire that burn producing CO i think that repels the oxygen from the atmosphere. But by "inert gas" you mean someone from the noble gas family dont you?

i thought the finished product came out of the ground lol

Do scientist call liquid Titanium tetrachloride 'tickle juice'?

Next is vibranium

They replaced it with satellites. They go way way faster than that aeroplane but aren't as cool.

you don't need a super welder - you can buy a Mig or Tig at a welding supply store that will do the job. shielding not a big deal either, especially with Mig. I've never Tig welded Ti. now the bike makers will still need to hire a guy who has some training to weld. I don't think you want that entry level, unless you like bubble gum weak welds.

your comments on welding are mostly wrong. when making tubing, it does get welding in a small airtight box filled with an inert gas (like helium or argon), and the weld is made with the Tig process - small tungsten electrodes about the size of a pencil or in some cases a laser.

wow thats crazy i have so much of it in me i did not know how it was made shit

it's actually not too expensive for how difficult it is to produce...like 4.50 for a KG...That's cheap!

Titanium cannot be welded by normal process like the electricity arc, cause as he melts for a milisecond he will react with the oxygen in the air, or even the freaking Nitrogen will react with it, detroying it.

Why can't Americans make a documentary that isn't totally frenetic and stressful to watch?

you meen cold casting titaniam no i my salf never seen or hard of that but i might be rong i do alote of cold casting with my corp and i done silver bronze coper and plastic but i never hard of titanium cold casting if you know of it late me know lol but thin again it would not be real as cold casting is a 2 compound and one that is razin more less look fell of aluma

Not a war plane, ffs, it's a spy plane.

gah, the editing of this is like having a seizure

This is so ridiculously inefficient.

BTW the SR-71 was built from USSR Titanium.

The SR71 was made from Russian Titanium....FACT!

LOL never used for a plane before UMMM the avro arrow holds the first for that ... and flew as fast and as high too ... the sr71 was about tp be cancelled in march of 59 ... but the arrow was cancelled the month before and already knew how to use titnaium and work it ... so they took the swept wing sr71 failure and made it delta winged and a success ... no sadly too many american lies in this story ... and yes even the arrow with its heavier slower larger P&W j75 engines was already close to the sr 71 ... if they let206 fly the sr 71 would never have been buiilt because the arrow could do what it did and PROTECT ITSELF .. pity a country lost the best plane ever design and produced ... yes produced ... there were NEVER any arrow proto types ... the cook craige method was direct to production line .. so all 37 planes on the line were PRODUCTION run aircraft ... best part the design spec air 7.3 still is un met today 63 years later ... not even the f35 all 3 variants cn match her not even the f22 ... NOTHING meets the spec th arrow was built to and had finished 95% of its testing and exceeded everything except being a 2 seater fighter interceptor with 2 jet turbines ... thats right ... that is all the spec they met the rest they exceeded ... and with the ps13's she would have passed the sr71 in ALL aspects ... pity a PM and the americans didnt want the best ... just second best

I am preparing for an engineering report with the topic of "Titanium manufacturing". Do you know any sources that might help?