Ritchey WCS Stem- Titanium?
08-09-09 | 12:19 PM
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Ritchey WCS Stem- Titanium?
This stem came on my 87 Paramount. It was too short for me, so I swapped out. One person told me that it looked like titanium. Is that possibly true? If so, what it might be worth?
The bike has a Ti bottom bracket, skinny cranks, and other weight saving features, so it would not be completely out of character for this to be Ti.
Jared
The bike has a Ti bottom bracket, skinny cranks, and other weight saving features, so it would not be completely out of character for this to be Ti.
Jared
08-09-09 | 12:32 PM
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The welds are too small and the material in the clamp too thin to be aluminum. Try a magnet. Titanium is virtually non-magnetic. There may some very weak reaction due to trace iron. If you get a strong attraction, it's steel with a titanium finish.
08-09-09 | 01:12 PM
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And it has writing on tube:
NITTO JAPAN
HEAT TREATED
0.Z
26.0
So some type of heat treated steel?
