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rchevelle71
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I work with Medical Grade Titanium every day, Although not as easy to cut as gold, it cuts pretty easy in the machines, not sure how hard it is to cut a ring though.
Airpacker
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Anyone that works with electricity or electronics should never wear a ring. It's a contact hazard and avoidable by not wearing a ring at all.
Sorry for the gross pic.
My father did exactly that between a live battery cable and a frame rail. Couldn't pull his hand free as the ring arc welded to the battery cable and the frame. By the time I cut the cable, his finger was burned real bad. Required reconstructive surgery to fix his finger.
Told my wife day one that my wedding band would spend almost its entire3 life in her jewel box and not on my hand.
I wear it "out" but thats it.
I also never wear a watch, chain etc. Nothing metal at work. Modern HID lighting and ignition systems can KILL. I don't want to go out that way
TC has virtually no ductility. If you hit it hard enough to deform it, it would shatter.
Titanium is much more ductile than TC, but also has a significantly higher tensile strength than gold. If you crush a titanium ring on your finger, it's unlikely there's going to be much with salvaging past your wrist anyway.
I crushed a gold wedding band onto my finger about 20 years ago. Had to cut it off myself. It hurt.
I cut mine with a pair of compound-lever cutters. Went right thru. I tried electrician's dykes- no way. Couldn't get deep enough in the jaws with the ring mashed on my finger.
rchevelle71
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Here is what we make, signifigantly smaller than a ring.
http://biomet3i.com/countries/en/directory/Prod.cfm?PageId=802176172542&App=Yes
yesrej
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ok, this is what i just did. i work with my hands everyday so i had to think about that. i bought a tungsten (looks like the second one pictured) for a few reasons. i was going to go with the titanium but was told very hard to cut off if something happens. i was told a few fingers were cut off because the ring couldnt be cut. the tungsten can be tapped in a certian spot and will just split apart. i thought the tungsten looked very nice and its different. most darts are made with tungsten so i knew what it was. also the ring was not much money as well. hope this helps.
Worst-case- a titanium ring could be removed in about a minute with a $60 dremel from a local hardware store using either the abrasive cutoff wheel or the optional diamond cutoff wheel they have at every Lowe's. No one is going to amputate a finger when a solution so chep and easy exists.
True, but most will run to the emergency room because their laptop or cell phone can't remove the ring.
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MarylandMark
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I learned a new word today!
Yes Siree, it sure does!
After 15 years in the phone company, I've heard more than enough horror stories not to wear jewelry on the job. My side job appraising houses takes me in some questionable areas when I'd be nervous having a fancy key chain, yet alone a ring on. Funny- when they hear my diesel coming, they think it's the Metro Bus coming (even with most of them running Natural Gas these days).
What about stainless steel? This one is $20!! Yes, only one zero there! The mount for the wifes ring was around $1K IIRC so was thinking some thing about 1/2-2/3 that price, no clue I could get off for like $20!
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rchevelle71
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SS is harder to cut than titanium, for instance, we cut titanium 24 hours a day, sometimes for weeks with a single tool, SS we change tools every 4 hours. I believe the $20, My Titanium one that I wear daily cost like $35.
I remarried three years ago. The band my wife got me was simple but very expensive due to materials and being custom designed. We went to Mexico the following week and I was afraid I'd lose it so I locked it in the safe.
Couple days later she bought me a simple silver ring from one of the beach vendors for $12 and calls me her Mexican husband. Since my fingers swell in warm weather I wear my cheap mexican ring in the summer months and the expensive original ring in the cold winter months.
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Couple days later she bought me a simple silver ring from one of the beach vendors for $12 and calls me her Mexican husband. Since my fingers swell in warm weather I wear my cheap mexican ring in the summer months and the expensive original ring in the cold winter months.
ed
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Your are absolutely right..you cannot imagine how much we spend on cutting tools. SS is brutal on them.... to say the least.
Julie
rchevelle71
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Julie,
I am doing tool life studies right now on some tiny ss screws that hold dental implants in, we used to make them from a gold/Titanium alloy, but it was too expensive, so now we turn them from SS and have them 14K gold plated. You cant even imagine cutting stuff this small, we turn a 16 finish, and mill a 32, all on the same machine, Star and Citizen swiss screw machines, live tooling etc. I am talking m1.4 stuff. We have boring bars that we run in the turning centers that need to be magnified 200x just to measure. Crazy stuff, holding .0003 tolerance. Our implants are made of Titanium, and I joke about how easy that stuff is to turn/mill etc.
Rick
MarylandMark
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Comfort fit/rounded finish inside- initial putting on rings seems like this is the way to go?
My local guy had a 10 & a 10.5; seems I am a 10.25.
6MM seemed like the best width but some rings I like are 7MM-8MM. Any advice/does it matter?
My local guy had a 10 & a 10.5; seems I am a 10.25.
6MM seemed like the best width but some rings I like are 7MM-8MM. Any advice/does it matter?
Five Cent Worth
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Went through a similar type search this past Aug.
I went with this material and shape as well. And after going in the jewelery store - I bought it for $55 from amazon.com. The exact same thing opposed to $400.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001GJ54E6/ref=oss_product
Mike
nortech4play
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I have a simple gold band but have never worn it much except when we go out and were going on 30 years in April. I used to use the electrical conductivity line which is true when working but never got used to wearing rings...
BTW...low voltage will still cause a lot of damage if you have enough amperage....it's not the volts that get you it's the amps... I still have a nice scar on my wrist from my watch band when I grounded it across some 6 volt, 12 amp fire alarm batteries...
BTW...low voltage will still cause a lot of damage if you have enough amperage....it's not the volts that get you it's the amps... I still have a nice scar on my wrist from my watch band when I grounded it across some 6 volt, 12 amp fire alarm batteries...
MarylandMark
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So I went to Jared- a local big box jeweler. I tried to stick with the local guy which is where her ring came from, but he didn't have the selection and his prices were a little high IMHO.
So anyway- we look at some rings, try some on, etc and keep going back to this one ring.
Decide to get it, I look at the price and peel off $1100. Normally I'd used my debit card to get the cash back but I'd just paid Sy my insurance premium and my bank won't let me "charge" more than $2K a day without calling them to reset amount spent that day to under $2K.
They lady looks at me like I'm nuts. Turns out the price was $99, not $999 like I thought I saw.
Stainless steel, if not used for props apparently is inexpensive! Sweet!!
Brushed part in the middle, then some shinny stuff and then some gooves.
So anyway- we look at some rings, try some on, etc and keep going back to this one ring.
Decide to get it, I look at the price and peel off $1100. Normally I'd used my debit card to get the cash back but I'd just paid Sy my insurance premium and my bank won't let me "charge" more than $2K a day without calling them to reset amount spent that day to under $2K.
They lady looks at me like I'm nuts. Turns out the price was $99, not $999 like I thought I saw.
Stainless steel, if not used for props apparently is inexpensive! Sweet!!
Brushed part in the middle, then some shinny stuff and then some gooves.
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