landesskis
GONE WEST
Curious if any manufacturer's have any ins on 4130 plate (1/8" thick, annealed preferred) and Titanium. Material lead times and cost is the worst I have ever seen. The material lead time for my nose forks are taking 6 months, and titanium is almost a year. Boeing just visited and they are pooling their companies to order larger lots of material. The bad thing is all the consolidation in the steel industry, raw titanium still comes from Russia, but only one or two plants are left (in the U.S.) that can process it to aircraft quality. Material costs are just sky high (composite resin is oil based).