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Making stakes from titanium spokes?
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May 4, 2008 at 10:17 am #1228758
Has anyone tried it? How do they work?
Yes I have found a source for single titanium spokes:
http://www.cambriabike.com/shopexd.asp?id=22521&page=DT+TITANIUM+SPOKEMay 4, 2008 at 11:45 am #1431570I tried it but the spokes are too small in diameter and would only work in soft ground. I tried to use them for stakes for my titanium foil wind screen but had the same results. Also I don't think they're the right alloy and they bend fairly easily. They do make great bail handles and I have modified several of my pots.
I found a source at a local shop that focuses on racing bikes and has a box of used spokes that I can paw through for the least bent up. They charged me a dollar a spoke.
May 4, 2008 at 8:58 pm #1431633thanks Denis. I will stick to buying 'real' titanium stakes.
May 12, 2008 at 3:52 pm #1432942Experience: not good. They are too thin and too short to bend into a U that would make them adequate. I have ended up using steel U stakes instead of straight titanium stakes because the Us hold better and small gauge steel U stakes weigh the same as 'standard' gauge titanium stakes – 0.3 to 0.25 oz. each.
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