Re: Making a perfect snow shovel

Andy Dingley wrote: 
On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 04:13:23 GMT, Ecnerwal
<LawrenceSMITH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I don't think there is such an animal as an aluminum shovel that's not too heavy which won't eventually fatigue crack in use. 


Best I've seen were titanium. Better wear resistance on the front edge
than aluminium too.  Now these were on a German airbase, but Ti scrap is
cheap enough these days you can find it all over the place.


Titanium!  Yikes!  Yeah, really available if there is a military
aircraft crash in your back yard!  Those must have been damaged
access covers off an F-15, which WOULD be just PEREFECT for making
snow shovels out of.  Of course, they were worth $500 as scrap material,
and probably cost the US government $15,000 each.

Jon

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