The company making our wheel forgings is offering it to us at a price point about 30% above 6061 so I guess that could make it a worthwhile adventure. I have not priced it out in bar stock or rod though, that should give me more to do next week!! :)

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"Titanium galls when used against steel, ..."
- I assume they would be used against the Al Fuchs wheels, but maybe there would still be galling.

Galling (and therefore jamming) on the steel studs is what would be of concern - maybe with the right coatings and/or scrupulous use of anti-seize this could be avoided.

14,000 lug nuts would take a while to sell. I wonder in terms of
quantity produced where the cost crossover point to $8 each is taking into account design, programming, setup and inspection labor, materials, tooling, machine time, anodizing or painting, liability insurance, warehouse expenses and interest costs.

I kind of thought this was heading in that direction too. I don't see much is gained over the steel lug nuts.

I was simply using that as an example to show that it could be done. One would probably have around a dollar invested in each one once they were completed. But, yes, 14000 lug nuts would take a very very long time to sell......

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"Floatonium"....Mine are at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.....

I use steel open headed nuts. I've helped two people that had the seats seperate from the barrel. It's not a pretty site.

100% in agreement.

I'd imagine the factory ones are 7075 but probably not T6, but T62 (post machine operation HT).

I checked an old lug nut at work with a nuclear analyzer. It's not super accurate on aluminum, but it's showing to be 7075.