Ted-

I got a call at the shop one afternoon in '92 or '93
A couple of friends had gotten a shipment of sample Ti tubing from Eastern Europe.
A materials broker was offering a seductive offer on 'milsurp' tubing and stock.
They'd been joking around with the notion that 'that stuff could have been recycled from *some reactor or something*' when they got the idea to drag out the Rad Meter.

That material was Hot!

Since then I've steered clear of any cheap Chinese (or whatever) titanium products. Frankly, I have little personal use for titanium, and don't tend much to fancy exotic material for the sake of exotic anyway.



--Tinker