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05-02-11, 03:36 PM
I was looking at high quality saddles recently and was wondering about all these made up names for metal rails. What are they really? I understand Mn and Va labeled rails are steel w/ manganese and vanadium used as alloying agents.
FeC makes sense. It's a steel w/ iron and carbon as its primary elements. What about:
Ti 316
Vanox
Ti-nox
Titanox
K:ium (a potassium based alloy?)
Seems the saddle companies are trying to pass off metals that sound like titanium but are not really. Understandable, b/c high quality Ti alloys are very expensive these days.
FeC makes sense. It's a steel w/ iron and carbon as its primary elements. What about:
Ti 316
Vanox
Ti-nox
Titanox
K:ium (a potassium based alloy?)
Seems the saddle companies are trying to pass off metals that sound like titanium but are not really. Understandable, b/c high quality Ti alloys are very expensive these days.