Any interest in a titanium honeycomb splitter? Strong and light.

 

As in you are selling one or as in you are thinking about making them?

I suspect that a splitter is not the most effective place for titanium to be used. Aluminum is also strong and light, for less money. CFRP is probably lighter, for the same money. But that depends on your source of Ti, I suppose.

Is the Ti the core, the facesheet, or both?

 

Partially.

APR made his lip for him. He did design it though.

 

I have made one already. If there is enough interest I will do a small run of them, but the material is quite expensive. Both faces are Titanium and the core is Aluminum.

CFRP may be lighter, but one incident and it will disintegrate. The pretty ones from Japan definitely appear to work well, but I doubt anyone here would want to replace them with any sort of frequency due to their fragile nature and high cost.

 

I disagree. One incident that is enough to disintegrate a CFRP splitter would also be enough to destroy a metal splitter of equal build quality. IMO, of course. But the aerospace industry has not found CFRP to be particularly fragile. If anything, it's tougher than metal.

 

If you are talking high quality dry CF then you might just want to go with ASM.

I find metal to be a material easier to work with, but that's a personal choice. Carbon could be arranged, but the process would take longer.

 

I'm talking my experience in the aerospace industry. So yes, high quality prepreg. And high price.

As I said earlier, I'm probably going to try just making a splitter out of aluminum sheet stock. The extra weight is worth the lower costs for my purposes.

 

I'd be interested in one Asura. I'm also anxious for people to start posting pics of their splitters

 

What I have right now is cut by APR. If you send APR a template, they will cut you anything from a flat sheet of FRP. It's pretty sturdy, I've had some decent offs with it and it has yet to crack anywhere.

Here is something I've been working on recently:

 

APR lip molded to a FRP splitter?