Titanium AX Upgrades?

[FL Knifemaker]

What parts, if any would you replace with titanium if it was possible?? We're bulding our kit now and I already have a few things in mind, more for show than anything else Also, do you guys actually BEND the stock lower links?? They would be an easy project to do in titaniumm, maybe even CNC'ed out of flat stock....... but JEEZ!!! The aluminum ones are pretty damn stout!!

[life_livin]

I have heard of some people bending the stock links but id rather buy them from strc or my lhs or make them out of 3/16 breakline and 4-40 all threaded rod(i think thats the size)

[Stormin2u]

FYI links and lockers are already being done by Rocksmith.

[Toyotawheeler]

I'm curently building a titanium Ti-6AL-4V tube chassis for the ax10. Btw nice grand wagoneer

[binaryterror]

Titanium is much heavier than aluminum...so using it means you need to weigh pros/cons. A low CG chassis would be fine, but the stock unit will raise your CoG. Also titanium can't be bent...not easily at all (aka nothing you can do in even a good machine shop).

I like aluminum, its cheap, easy to work with and light. I like to chose where my added weight will be.

[skid]

Originally Posted by binaryterror

Also titanium can't be bent...not easily at all (aka nothing you can do in even a good machine shop).

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Not completely my experience. Been using titanium tierods or rc for 20ish years. The will bend a little, too much and they break, try to bend the back straight and they break.

[FL Knifemaker]

Originally Posted by Toyotawheeler

I'm curently building a titanium Ti-6AL-4V tube chassis for the ax10. Btw nice grand wagoneer

That should be a fun project. Commercially pure (CP) titanium can be bent. I can put some fairly sharp bends in the harder 6al series Ti. pocket clips I make for knives. They key is, the bends need to be done over a small radius and not square.........or heat applied.

The Wagoneer is my full size project, it's an 82 with a 70's "razor" grill.

I'm going to have my son make a servo mount and maybe a few other easy parts. We can anodize them green to match the green aluminum parts. Skeletonized Ti. links would look cool but I don't have time for that right now

Thanks all for the feedback.