shakes268

Do you guys think a Dremel with a cutting wheel will be fine to cut 3/16" titanium struts?

Campy

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Depends on the cutoff wheel. I may be wrong, but at a minimum you will need a heavy duty cutoff wheel, possibly the fiberglass reenforced one.

I use a HD wheel on my dremel for cutting K&S streamline aluminum tubing for struts with no problems.

On a personal note, titanium for wing struts seems a bit of overkill to me.

As I said above, I use K&S streamline aluminum tubing and after soldering a ring terminal on a piece of 3/32" or 1/8" music wire, I JB Weld about 2" of it inside the tubing. I have had a couple of nasty crashes that have mangled the struts, but the JB Weld on the wire never came loose.

Flyboy Dave

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I have never worked with titanium....tells us if it cuts ok.

FBD.

Richard L.

My Feedback: (24)

Yes, a fiberglass reinforced cutoff wheel could cut through titanium just fine because I have done it in the past. Be sure to wear nose and eye protection.

shakes268

Cut them last night - used a fiberglass reinforced cutting wheel and went slow at half speed. Talk about white sparks! Looked like a sparkler from around the 4th of July.
Trimmed both ends of 2 struts and have them installed now. Thanks!