killforfood Posted December 23, 2011 Posted December 23, 2011 How would you guys go about breaking down these Ti turnings?http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/killforfood/Pyro/titurnings002.jpg They are quite the pain because they're so fluffy, long and stringy. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/killforfood/Pyro/titurnings003.jpg I attempted to ball mill the chips in a piece of 8" steel pipe for a jar and used old solid carbide inserts as the grinding media. I think the final product was well contaminated with carbide chips and steel from the jar walls. There has to be a better way. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/killforfood/Pyro/titurnings001.jpg
NightHawkInLight Posted December 23, 2011 Posted December 23, 2011 A blender or coffee grinder you don't care about possibly.
BJV Posted December 23, 2011 Posted December 23, 2011 About the only way is to use a garbage disposal.You set it up out side, run water hose to it and grind the turningthrough it in to a 5 gal bucket. It works.... BJV
killforfood Posted December 23, 2011 Author Posted December 23, 2011 A blender or coffee grinder you don't care about possibly.NHL,Goodwill is full of stuff I don't care about I think its worth a try but I also wonder if this stringy crap won't just tangle around the blades.What I really need is a baby version of a scrap yard metal shredder. Since I don't think there is such a thing, I'll try the blender.
NightHawkInLight Posted December 23, 2011 Posted December 23, 2011 NHL,Goodwill is full of stuff I don't care about I think its worth a try but I also wonder if this stringy crap won't just tangle around the blades.What I really need is a baby version of a scrap yard metal shredder. Since I don't think there is such a thing, I'll try the blender. Filling it with water also similar to the garbage disposal idea might work well also to get the turnings really moving around. Let me know how it works, I've got a big bucket of aluminum turnings I might do the same with.
killforfood Posted December 23, 2011 Author Posted December 23, 2011 About the only way is to use a garbage disposal.You set it up out side, run water hose to it and grind the turningthrough it in to a 5 gal bucket. It works.... BJVHi BJV,I got the biggest kick out of a video you posted.It was the one with the stars shooting out to the sides as the shell ascended.You were in the background giggling like a little school girl.I thought "now there's a man who truely loves and appreciates the art of pyro".Thanks for the "moment", the shell wasn't bad either.Anyways back to the subject. I didn't see your post until after I put up that last post.The garbage disposal idea is a really good one.In high school I had a job washing dishes. The restuarants industrial garbage disposal would eat anything. just for kicks, we used to through those big solid glass ashtrays in there and it would chew them up in one to two seconds. I have friends that do home remodels. I'll ask them to keep an eye out for one.
killforfood Posted December 23, 2011 Author Posted December 23, 2011 (edited) Filling it with water also similar to the garbage disposal idea might work well also to get the turnings really moving around. Let me know how it works, I've got a big bucket of aluminum turnings I might do the same with.Thanks for the tip. The water would do a good job of holding the whole mess in suspension.In the machine shop up front, they have a big band saw that mostly just cuts aluminum. I'll bet there's a good pound or two of fine shavings in the bottom of it right now.The only other thing that only occasionaly gets cut on it is wax. I don't know if a small amount of wax contaminant would be a problem but FREE makes it worth playing with. Edited December 23, 2011 by killforfood
Peret Posted December 24, 2011 Posted December 24, 2011 I think its worth a try but I also wonder if this stringy crap won't just tangle around the blades. There are no blades in a sink garbage disposal - just a spinning iron plate surrounded by a cast iron tube with slots in it. There is a danger the titanium will get between the spinning plate and the cylinder and jam it, however. I've seen one jammed by a dime that fell in.
oldguy Posted December 24, 2011 Posted December 24, 2011 If you have access to a small hand operated, or pneumatic sheet metal shear?It will do the job down to around ¼ inch lengths. It’s a laborious process feeding one though. A commercial or lab grade stainless steel blender will reduce those ¼ inch clippings down to about any size you want.
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