Originally Posted by
Booger1
Use anti-sieze on Ti.Teflon tape should be OK,Ti is really not that abrasive compaired to other alloys,like SS.
Just for the record,you CAN cut Ti with HSS,all day long.I repeat,you DO NOT need carbide/diamond to machine Ti.There is no Ti that is anywhere near as hard as HHS.
If you think you can spin/feed HSS fast/hard enough to burn the edge of the tooling by hand,more power too you.
I could find no one in my bicycle crazy area that was willing to risk their tools on a titanium frame. I called about a dozen shops and each one said the same...Nope.