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BrianG · 02.18.2006, 07:30 PM

Too bad spring steel is heavy. It would make the ideal material in a lot of applications. Done right, it will flex a little and return back to default. Those hard materials like Ti are hard to bend, but when they do, might as well replace it! Of course, sometimes no amount of flex is desired, which is good for those materials.

It would be nice to have an inexpensive material that was a breeze to work on (cut, drill, and bend), and then "cure" it using common household resources to get it to be whatever hardness dedired. I guess similar to how clay works. :)

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BrianG RC-Monster Admin Offline Posts: 14,609 Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Des Moines, IA	02.18.2006, 07:30 PM Too bad spring steel is heavy. It would make the ideal material in a lot of applications. Done right, it will flex a little and return back to default. Those hard materials like Ti are hard to bend, but when they do, might as well replace it! Of course, sometimes no amount of flex is desired, which is good for those materials. It would be nice to have an inexpensive material that was a breeze to work on (cut, drill, and bend), and then "cure" it using common household resources to get it to be whatever hardness dedired. I guess similar to how clay works. :)