Working titanium
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Theres a bloke on british blades called farid who sells and works with titanium, so he would probably be able to give you a good answer!
Other than "shiny kit syndrome" why do you want them?
There are a number of titanium alloys. Do you know that the type used in the rod that you say you can get is the same as the stuff used in the pegs you can't afford? Different alloys, big difference in properties. The different alloys will be different to work with too. The kind of rod that Farid sells (or did sell) for pin stock, bends easily. Easy to form, but I wouldn't trust it not to bend when used as a peg. The 6AL4V rod that I have seen would be pretty indestructable for tent pegs, but a nightmare to form without special tools.
Possible or not, I would say that it isn't worth the trouble. Aluminium pegs will do you just as well in 90%+ of situations and the trade off on strength to weight won't matter a jot. Titanium pegs are specialist kit, more so than most other bits of kit that might be made of titanium.
There is quite a difference between good aluminium pegs and poor ones.
Yeah... so does aluminium... don't mix it with rust and heat it
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Hi Tengu
Yes they are certainly lighter and I use the Alpkit ones http://www.alpkit.com/shop/cart.php?target=product&product_id=16259&category_id=287 which at the end of the day are good value but Its all a bit debateable really
Yes they are certainly lighter and I use the Alpkit ones http://www.alpkit.com/shop/cart.php?target=product&product_id=16259&category_id=287 which at the end of the day are good value but Its all a bit debateable really
Why not make some from local wood when you get to site R.M. style?? It saves the weight and pack space not to mention the cost.
I've got to agree. Make some out of a strong, light wood like Ash and, if you have made them well, I'd expect they would put up with some considerable stresses and strains. When they are dry they'll be as light as Alu....
Because one frequently gets to camp late, one is tired, and there often are no nice convenient hazel or ash sapplings to go cutting down. Yes, I can make my own pegs, but I have come to the conclusion that it is usually much better to carry my own aluminium pegs. Try whittling your own when on a moor, in a camping field or amoung stunted mountain birch. Its a right pain.
Sometimes you just want to be able to peg out without going on a treasure hunt or needing to get creative with clumps of heather and rocks
The first year I came down to the Moot all I knew of the site was that it was on sand.
I was kind of fretting about the pegs I use for the parachute, so I bought some glass fibre reinforced plastic ones before Russ made those steel spikes for me.
The glass fibre pegs never got used down there but they are supposedly the bees knees for beaches, scree, and gravel.
They weren't all that expensive either but they're certainly relatively lightweight and come in assorted lengths.
cheers,
Toddy
I was kind of fretting about the pegs I use for the parachute, so I bought some glass fibre reinforced plastic ones before Russ made those steel spikes for me.
The glass fibre pegs never got used down there but they are supposedly the bees knees for beaches, scree, and gravel.
They weren't all that expensive either but they're certainly relatively lightweight and come in assorted lengths.
cheers,
Toddy
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