We old ex-Toolmakers just love a challenge and machining Titanium is certainly it.
Just a word of Warning about Titanium. It's worth checking grades very carefully and if you can find it there is a Titanium Industries pamphlet about the Do's and Dont's of this material. It's a mine of information. Unfortunately I loaned mine to someone ( I can't remember who) and never got it back. I think it is a poor bearing material likened to a metal with a handful of grit in it. So I'm not sure about you lovely spindles. As timetraveller (Thanks for the kind words) mentioned my first ventures were hand cut from some wire-cut offcut blocks I was given and then turned into Valve spring retainers. For the crankcase I purchased the material from Pete Lidster who used to be passenger in Martin Quirks Vincent sidecar. More recently Terry Martin gave me some very useful lengths that were surplus at his work.
Cheers Roy
Just a word of Warning about Titanium. It's worth checking grades very carefully and if you can find it there is a Titanium Industries pamphlet about the Do's and Dont's of this material. It's a mine of information. Unfortunately I loaned mine to someone ( I can't remember who) and never got it back. I think it is a poor bearing material likened to a metal with a handful of grit in it. So I'm not sure about you lovely spindles. As timetraveller (Thanks for the kind words) mentioned my first ventures were hand cut from some wire-cut offcut blocks I was given and then turned into Valve spring retainers. For the crankcase I purchased the material from Pete Lidster who used to be passenger in Martin Quirks Vincent sidecar. More recently Terry Martin gave me some very useful lengths that were surplus at his work.
Cheers Roy