I'm was ready to order a pastle of these today and was wondering if they are dimensionally the same as the steel mounts. Also the disimilar metals has me wondering too.
TIA,
Duke
(Smith mounts and rings add 1 pound to the gun. OUCH! I love Smith products but I'm going for light weight....hopefully.)
All Sadlak mounts, titanium, steel, steel airborne, and aluminum, are manufactured to the exact same specifications and dimensions.
The titanium mount weighs approximately 7.3 oz as opposed to about 11 oz for the standard steel. Also, titanium has a tensile strength of approximately 900 MPa so it provides the advantage of light weight and great strength.
Titanium is highly corrosion resistant and while galvanic corrosion is always a question when mating dissimilar materials, the combination of titanium and steel is not considered an adverse pairing. The Tungsten Diamondlike coating on the titanium also aids in reducing the probility of corrosion.
As a disclaimer, I am not a metalurgist but this is the information I have been able to accumulate regarding the subject during the past few years.
Wow I haven't talked to you in a long time. I'll PM you my cell#. MCORPS1
I like titanium. This is the only metal that survived re-entry when Sky-Lab fell back to earth. (titanium fuel tank)
My last dealing with titanium was when I buddied up with a fella back in the shop and I coorsed him into thinking we needed titanium back pack stoves copied from the MSR brand. While I was turning my burner, it poped out of the lathe chuck and hit the floor and rang like a tunning fork. This had me wondering about the scope mount. But from reading that the Sadlak mount is dimesionally the same there would be no problem. It's low and beefy.
I hope it will take paint or immulsion graphics. lol I don't know if my etching primer will even touch the Titanium surface.
OK, I just ordered all mine FRG1 because after this posting there might not be any more left! lol
There's still a couple left at Brownells so get em while there hot guys.
At least shipping will be cheap cheap with titanium. GI2
Duke, I did some research about titanium some years ago to see if some of the steel structural bolts on a motorcycle might be replaced with Ti bolts. Worked well, in general if a steel part weighs 10 ounces, a Ti version of the part will weigh 4 ounces and an aluminum part will weigh 3 ounces. The importance of Ti is that while aluminum cannot be made as strong as steel with identical dimensions, Ti can.
when i got out of the navy, i went to work for the usaf working on f-111's, f-4's and a-10's (30 yrs ago) . some of the fan blades in the jet engines were made of titanium because of their light weight and they were super strong. we use to clean them in a acid bath before checking them for cracks. so i think titanium would be a great choice of metal for a mount.
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