Is titanium a good material for parts that rub against each other? I'm not so sure about that.
Pretty sure I read somewhere that it's not. I believe it was in reference to its use in rifle actions.
Don't hold me to that, as I'm Pretty Old.
Titanium galls.
There's the problem with dumbed-down blanket statements like that - it's true about one condition, but not everything, but people repeat stuff like that without bothering to learn the truth. It's no more accurate than "aluminum galls" or "stainless galls" which are also true in certain conditions.
Most grades of titanium can tend to gall against titanium. But, it works very well without galling against steel and other metals. It can potentially be a very good material for scope internals, but the material itself is expensive, and it's even more expensive to machine parts from it. It'd work, but would people pay for it? Some would, for sure, as we see from other titanium parts in the gun industry.
