or know where to buy from for that matter?
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Anyone on here make/sell Titanium bolts etc
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nice one thanks
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Also tastynuts, do a great range of annodised aluminium for non-stressed locations.
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Are their bolts of the same quality as the rest of their stuff?
Runs away and hides........
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The word cheese springs to mind....and yes that is from experience. I've never had one snap but the heads round off very easily.
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Offroading - Member
CHeck the bolts you get though. I've had a couple with cracked heads from SSC.
buzz-lightyear - Member
I got my mate some of those Tibolts from SS, for his rotors. One sheared just as he got it finger tight. How do I get it out?
ta
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I've used a bunch of the tibolts parts, apart from one bolt being the wrong size in a kit (soon replaced, no bother) they've been absolutely fine, no different in usability from bolts I've used from HRC (Honda) and Tastynuts. Or for that matter dirt cheap ones from Hong Kong. The allen heads do seem to be slightly slacker on the tibolts ones than on the others, which means you have to be a little more careful with tools.
I have on the other hand had a brand new SRAM shifter bolt shear before it got near operating torque, so based on this extensive survey I advise never to buy SRAM as all their bolts must be cheese, right?
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I've used titanium bolts from a variety of sources, the Tibolts ones are definitely the worst, shallow socket heads, sometimes badly formed, and do seem very cheese like.
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Tibolts are **** awful, avoid.
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r6ymy, where the socket heads are shallow it's by design- tastynuts and yoyodyneti will supply similiar spec to order, but it's at extra cost
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ti bolts from sram probably come from the same place the SSC ones come from which if you look hard enough on the TBG could be one of about 10 cheese factories
you get what you pay for and if its forged heads and rolled threads you put your hand in your pocket...the tasty nuts ones arent from chiwan though and are plenty tough for most folks even though you pay a bit more for them
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only issue i have with tasty nuts is the Cayenne driving k*** who parks up outside the front and tried to run me off the road.
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tasty nuts are where i get my bolts from - very nice..
paul
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OP - do you want to go Ti to save weight or just to replace rusty bolts
If it's the later, stainless steel is a better option IMO
http://www.stagonset.co.uk/Posted 2 years ago # -
r6ymy, where the socket heads are shallow it's by design- tastynuts and yoyodyneti will supply similiar spec to order, but it's at extra cost
No, I don't mean low profile heads, I mean there is very little depth for the allen key to engage in, some of mine also had burrs and lumps of metal in the socket hole which further reduced the insertion of the allen key.Posted 2 years ago # -
Hmm- none of mine are like that at all, to be fair that does sound pretty rubbish. Not that you need a deep socket to get a good tool interface, but combined with the slightly slack tolerancing and that's got plenty of potential for slipped tools... Especially with mtb uses where a lot of the tools people use aren't very good, cheap allen keys from £30 toolkits etc. So, not impressed with that, though it's not my experience of them.
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anyone in edinburgh with any of these from ti-bolts? i wouldn't mind getting some (if folk had some spare) and testing them...
don't sound all that ti like if people are rounding them!Posted 2 years ago # -
Olly - TI is softer than steel so heads will round more easily
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Olly - TI is softer than steel so heads will round more easily
A bit of generalising there.
Titanium is on par with stainless steel so can range from hard to soft.
Steel can be soft or very hard so "softer than steel" doesnt really make much sense tbh.
Bolts are measured in tensile strength eg. 8.8 standard high tensile or 12.9 at top end of the scale.
Stainless is A2 (304) to A4 (316) the latter being better although I am not sure on tensile strength.
As for titanium it is the grade which determines tensile strength and there is alloys of titanium also.Not sure about any of them but you get the picture.Posted 2 years ago # -
Pendant!
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try telling that to all the blades i go through trying to cut the stuff!
its not softer than steel, some ti alloys maybe. but proper ti is not.
the site claims they're 6-4, which should have them at the harder end of the scale...
316 has a better tensile strength than 304, theres a load more though (825, 904 among other common types).I work with metal. and know about it, but i think these bolts are gonna be a cheap ti alloy, and not the ti they're claimed to be... (hence the cheapness no doubt...)
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or better informed than you...depends on your point of view.
we make all our own Ti bolts and housings at my place but you certainly couldnt afford them even if we did sell them. I been trying for months to get the workshop boys to make me some stuff but they are flat out...
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Ok Ok - sowwy!
TI alloys I have handled were softish.
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I never cease to wonder at the number of dull, pedantic facile engineering-type 'I know this / I know that' arguments that take place in this forum... Hmmm..
*grabs coat*
*hides*
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