Re: The Die Is Cast

dirtbag@xxxxxxxxx (-=DirtBag©)

Well it is about time this technology got a foot hold. $650 baseball
bats were certainly not main stream. I was hoping to see cell phones
made of their material. Or laptop cases.   It was a good idea but
never brought to market. IT is something to watch to be sure.. I hope
this is a set up for it to go mainstream.. then it would be a real
winner. They can machine this material too very fine tolerances. I am
not sure what stalled it the last few years.. was it patents stuff? Or
poor management? I haven't researched it for a long time.

-Dirt©


You could make a fleet of new "Space Shuttles" out of this crap, and
they do make one exclusive cell phone(The Vertu), and hinges on many
others.

Read the following:

"The ability to be cast and molded, combined with high wear resistance,
has also led to Liquidmetal being used as a replacement for plastics in
some applications.

It has been used on the casing of a late-model SanDisk "Cruzer Titanium"
USB flash drives as well as their Sansa line of flash based MP3 player,
and casings of some cellphones (like the luxury Vertu products) and
other toughened consumer electronics.

They retain a scratch-free surface longer than competing materials,
while still being made in complex shapes. The same qualities lend it to
be used as protective coatings for industrial machinery, including oil
drill pipes and power plant boiler tubes.

It is also considered as a replacement of titanium in applications
ranging from medical instruments and cars to military and aerospace
industry.

In military applications, rods of amorphous metals are considered as a
replacement of depleted uranium in kinetic energy penetrators.

Plates of Liquidmetal were used in the solar wind ion collector array in
the Genesis space probe.

Although Liquidmetal has very high strength and an excellent strength to
weight ratio, its commercial success as a structural material may be
limited.

Work continues on amorphous iron-based alloys that would combine at
least some of the advantages of Liquidmetal with even greater strength,
estimated to be two to three times the strength of the best steels made
today.

This would give such an alloy a strength to weight ratio that would
easily beat the best lightweight materials such as aluminum or titanium,
and be much less expensive than composites."


Look at these babies:

Liquidmetal? rims.

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Liquidmetal%99+Rims+

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