RonMicjan

Cliff Clavin says... its a little known fact that...

Ti is 1.6 times heavier than aluminum, but would not need to be near as thick to do the same job, so in essence most likely end up being lighter. However, a serious drop on a corner would be an expensive mistake. Ti is about an order of magnitude more expensive than aluminum by weight. (current metals pricing, results may vary)

to lighten up your meg, get a mini first, then have a serious machine shop turn down the bottom 2/3rd of the housing to about half thickness, then reanodize, forget the fancy tank mounting systems, go with a plastic backplate and aluminum 2 liter cylinders with the new Zeagle or H2Odyssey combined valve/regulator combo and you should come in around 35-40lbs/18 kilos. I have had the Superlight Mini Meg on the drawing board for some time.

BTW, there is no delrin in the MEG, delrin (a monopolymer acetal) tends to have problems with perosity when formed, ISC uses only Copolymer Acetal in its machined parts.

ISC once has a supplier send delrin mistakenly (cant tell them apart by looking) instead of our usual copolymer and a bunch of ADV's were made that leaked right through the face of the unit during testing, no, not around threads, or some such, right THROUGH the face of the part. this is not good...ask Darlene (scubavixen) about her frustrations with delrin for her handset design. It wasnt the orings : )

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