Platinum & Titanium

Perhaps just 'mis-speaking'. Tungsten, titanium confusion. Both
odd/uncommon words and both metals with some out-of-the-ordinary
properties. I have sometimes myself made similar confused statements
about andalusite vs. alexandrite. And heard others do the same thing. In
print, you do not have a chance to immediately respond to the other
person's look of confusion and correct yourself.

just a guess

Carl
1 Lucky Texan


Wooding wrote:
"Wooding" wrote in message
...

Well, apart from the replies in this newsgroup, I've also had a few by
direct email. All advise against the use of titanium, but whilst Googling
for tungsten or ceramic tipped tweezers (for which, by the way, I could

find

nothing in UK) I found the following statements in the Shore site at
http://shorinternational.com/TweezersSlide.htm

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Soldering Tweezers

The soldering tweezers shown here are all heavy duty. Many tweezers from
other Shor web pages can also be used for soldering (for example, the

black

oxidized AA tweezers are excellent for this purpose). In addition, for
platinum soldering, you will want to use titanium tweezers.

Tweezer Metals:
The chart below shows general property relationships among the various
metals used in the manufacturing of tweezers. In addition, note that the
points of the harder metals will wear longer and are less subject to
bending. The softer metals will not scratch delicate parts and usually

have

additional desirable properties such as being non-magnetic, etc. Titanium
has a very high melting temperature and is commonly used when soldering
platinum.
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What do you think of that?


I know its bad form to reply to my own posts, but concluded that the lack
of response to this one
was due to my last line being missinterpreted as meaning 'this proves you
are wrong'. That wasn't the intent - I really wanted an opinion on the
statements in Shor's advert.



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