Titanium soldering strip questions

[Petal]

I've started this thread, as I'm having a go at rolling mine down and others may find this thread useful.

OK, so they've arrived, are 1.25mm thick and I've milled down my first one. I'd like it to be around 1mm thick.

Do I anneal between each pass??

[china]

When I made mine I did not mill them down I just shaped them and ground the ends to suit

[Petal]

Thanks for your reply Bob. Having not used Titanium before, would I need to have a greater amount of heat than working with silver to anneal them, to mill them thinner, or just put through the mill more often, as its a 'tougher' metal?

[china]

Without getting really technical if you heat to a dull red and let it cool that should suffice, you will find that titanium tends to work harden more slowly than silver put some protection between the rollers and the titanium so you
don't damage the rollers.

[misspond]

This is really useful, even though I don't have a rolling mill. I've got some strips and I've not really used them. I have had a go at filing and shaping them to use them but have found them super tricky to bend into the shapes suggested from Jame's suggestions from the PDF he has shared. Technical/user error on my part I'm sure.
I generally end up using the strips to balance pieces on or butted up against pieces of silver to ensure they meet when I'm soldering tiny jump rings to larger mass pieces and don't want flux expansion to hinder me.

[Petal]

OK, so I've already buggered that up then, as I put them through the mill without protecting the rollers.

Would I need to anneal between each pass? I don't tend to do this with silver, unless I'm milling really thick sheet.

[china]

No you will most likely find that you can put it through quite a few times before it becomes work hardened, same as silver it will stop moving when it becomes hard then anneal again.

[CJ57]

James didn’t say anything about protecting the mill