Originally Posted by
sweeks
EDIT: I found a value closer to the one you quoted HERE in Table 1. I can't explain the discrepancy, but I *can* verify that my titanium skewers have held up for over 20 years. I'm not a metallurgist!
I deleted my reply because I thought it must be wrong.
Anyway, thanks for that link.
I think the difference must be stainless steel vs. more "normal" alloys of steel. I also discovered one pair of my skewers is indeed Ti.