Machining Ti6Al7Nb: Medical Titanium Alloy Parameters, Tooling Strategies, and Field Data

In 2019, a mid-sized contract manufacturer in the Midwest switched a spinal cage production line …

Cutting TB6 Near-Beta Titanium Without Burning Through Your Tool Budget: Shop Floor Data and Strategies

Walk into any shop that has machined TB6 (Ti-10V-2Fe-3Al) and you will hear the sam…

Facing a Material Ceiling: When Aluminum and 6Al-4V Fall Short

Picture a landing gear mechanism on an Airbus A350. The designer needs a component that cold-forms like a deep-drawn steel b…

TC6 (Ti-4Al-3Mo-1V) is a heat-treatable alpha-beta titanium alloy in the Chinese GB/T system. If your part needs titanium’s density and corrosion behaviour plus a strength level between annealed Ti-6Al-4V and the higher-alloyed TC11, and you can work within the heat-treatment and machining constraints below, TC6 is a reasonable candidate. If you need the widest mill-product

A Tool Chipping Mystery on the VMC

Last year, a shop we collaborate with ran a batch of TA15 hydraulic manifold bodies on a vertical machining center. Each block started as a 120 mm x 80 …

The Seawater Valve Job That Changed Our Approach to Titanium Machining

Last year, a manufacturer from the Gulf Coast sent us a batch of seawater valve bodies in TA10. The drawings called …

TC17 Near-Beta Titanium: Machining Parameters, Pitfalls, and Real-World Aerospace Applications

Picture a compressor disk blank arriving on your shop floor. It weighs 180 kg in the as-forg…

TC11 Titanium Alloy in CNC Machining: Working with Ti-6.5Al-3.5Mo-1.5Zr-0.3Si

In late 2022, a repair shop received a set of compressor disks from a regional power-generation turbine. The di…

A Machining Floor Incident That Taught Us About TC6

Last year, a batch of TC6 compressor discs came through the shop. The drawings called for a 42 HRC hardness after solution treatment an…

TA10 (Ti-0.3Mo-0.8Ni / ASTM Grade 12) titanium resists hot-chloride crevice corrosion better than CP titanium. Read its composition, properties, welding and CNC machining guidance.