I looked into it a while back. I wanted to see what the price difference and the weight difference would be. After doing some reasearch on the web I found that you could find all kinds of low priced aircraft grade titanium bolts on EBAY. If most of them were used, rejects, surplus, counterfeit AN bolts made in China, who knows. All the places I found that sold real certified bolts didn't have online pricing.
The thing that made me stop looking was information about lubing the threads correctly before putting the nuts on and critical torques to keep them from snapping. I got the impression that you really needed to know what you were doing if you were going to replace high stressed bolts in structural areas and most of the weight in bolts on a KR are high stress in structural areas. Even if they have the same or higher tensile strength as what you are replacing there are other considerations such as ductility and other things that I don't know enough about to know if you can use them where I wanted. I did come up with tons of links for titanium bolt replacement kits for racing bicycles and they were all pretty expensive. Brian Kraut Engineering Alternatives, Inc. www.engalt.com -----Original Message----- From: krnet-boun...@mylist.net [mailto:krnet-boun...@mylist.net]On Behalf Of Scott William Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 2:47 PM To: KRnet Subject: KR> Hardware Ok.....I've done my homework and I understand the difference between ASE graded hardware and AN standard hardware. Has anyone here used titanium bolts in thier airframe? Other than FAA examiner scrutiny (such as with the WAF) is there any reason not to use them besides price? Scott __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
