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I'm not sure how to take this comment. Is it unworkable or surprisingly workable?

• VBprogrammer 3y ago
  It's quite well known for being difficult to machine generally.
• nickff 3y ago
  Titanium is very hard to work with; for instance the carbide coatings on many drill-bits can cause it to degrade over time. Tooling for production of the blackbirds was a challenge in and of itself, as little was known about working with titanium at the time.
• jasonwatkinspdx 3y ago
  The more you cut titanium the harder it gets. It can eat even carbide drill / mill tools. Welding it is a nightmare.
• jacquesm 3y ago
  Very much unworkable. I got a chunk of titanium tubing at some point of my more metal oriented years and tried to do something useful with it, it ate up my tools pretty quickly. Typical standing time for a regular HSS bit was < 1 hole. Carbide did a bit better, but still that too went much faster than usual.