@JulieSqveakaroo we're partial to aluminum and brass personally, for conductivity reasons! Both have their problems though; aluminum forms an insulating oxide layer immediately on exposure to air, making it difficult to make good contact with, and brass has the problem all copper alloys do that alloying basically *anything* with copper makes its conductivity plummet
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What's the question?
@Tathar interpret it however you like! that's the point of these random polls
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@Felthry our instinct was to read this as a poll about nuts and bolts specifically, where I think it's usually valuable to have something harder than aluminium and where titanium would be very tricky to make threads in
brass is good but we ended up voting steel after all
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@Felthry I can't parse the intent of the emoji do you mean structural metals generally or specifically fasteners?
I voted Al but the results surprised me.
@starkatt the intent in all of these random polls is to have people interpret it however they see it!
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@starkatt i kinda think that's an interesting part of the whole thing
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@Felthry seeing that other people interpreted fasteners I wish I had voted steel.
An Al bolt is some nonsense.
@Felthry also I simultaneously love the feel of Ti and deeply resent how over-marketed and overhyped it is.
@starkatt they exist and are really useful for electrical stuff!! stronger than copper, more conductive than brass
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@Felthry you know what's really great though is structural magnesium.
@Felthry I voted steel but I would like to specify that I want stainless specifically
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Look, I'm not gonna argue whatsoever that Bronze/Brass isn't easy to turn and shape. It's great.
... but the slivers... OMFG, the slivers... it chips out so razor sharp that it's impossible not to get it in your skin, and it hurts like heckle!!
Steel is far more functional.
Aluminum is too soft to hold consistently over dropping and denting, and Titanium is really hard on tooling.
Some good 303 Steel is nice.