<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div><span>Sean,</span></div><div><span>Looking at the pictures it may make more sense to leave it as is but put it on a huge diet to make it </span>manageable. Got to get it to 20 tons from 38</div><div>Hank</div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Friday, December 23, 2016 12:10 PM, Sean T. Stevenson via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv9219685196"><div><div dir="ltr">You need to be careful working with titanium in order to avoid setting it on fire. Large pieces which are effective heat sinks are less of a problem, but machining chips can ignite readily and will burn vigorously because the combustion product (titanium oxide) is so stable.</div>
<div dir="ltr">You can flame cut, plasma cut, etc., but keep a class D extinguisher handy just in case.</div>
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<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv9219685196gmail_quote">On December 23, 2016 8:08:02 AM PST, hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org> wrote:<blockquote class="yiv9219685196gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="yiv9219685196yqt2631114201" id="yiv9219685196yqt23683"><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><div id="yiv9219685196yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482509120915_2866">Hi All,</div><div id="yiv9219685196yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482509120915_2866">Looks like I can buy the old Sever submarine in Alabama. The sub is WAY to big to be practical, so I am am in need of advice on how to cut the titanium heads off the pressure hull. Does anyone have experience with cutting heavy titanium?</div><div id="yiv9219685196yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482509120915_2866">Hank</div></div></div><div style="margin-top:2.5em;margin-bottom:1em;border-bottom:1px solid #000;"></div><pre class="yiv9219685196k9mail"></pre><hr><br clear="none">Personal_Submersibles mailing list<br clear="none">Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles">http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles</a><br clear="none"></blockquote></div><br clear="none">
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