A good example of a lawnmower ring!!

[Goldstrike]

I thought I had another gold ring when I had a solid 12 (M.L. Safari) at about 3 inches in the same park as I had found my 14K last week. As you can see, it had been in a battle with a park lawnmower and got beat up bad! I I thought it was white gold and still worth $$$ in scrap gold but was disappointed when the word TRITON came into view.......another titanium ring! Ah well, the little silver ring made up for the non gold ring!

 

[PSS1963]

Curious - can you notice the weight difference of these titanium rings? Titanium is a very light metal (about 4.5) while gold is quite heavy (19.3). Even copper which gold is frequently alloyed with has a density of about 9.

-pete

 

[Phillip_in_NM]

Very cool!

Thanks for the pictures!

 

[Goldstrike]

Pete, I hadn't weighed the titanium ring so here's a side by side comparison between that one and the (14K) gold ring I detected last week. There is only about 1 gram difference between them and the titanium rings Ive detected in the past all seemed to have been on the heavy side (they seem to make most of them chunky)! but not as heavy as the gold rings.

 

[PSS1963]

I see the problem - its kinda apples and oranges. The absolute weight doesn't tell ya an awful lot unless the rings were exactly the same size. Measuring density (g/ml), which should show clearly a gold versus a titanium ring is not an easy measurement to make because the objects are pretty small. I was hoping that there was a clear difference in the heft (subjectively allowing for size difference). Are there markings which identify a ring as titanium? - I've never found one.

 

[Goldstrike]

OOOppppsss! I should have said tungsten instead of titanium. Here's a tungsten ring I detected from a beach with the name Triton on it. I don't know about the weight question that PSS1963 had between the 2 metals.

 

[mudpuppy]

Cool! Yeah tungsten is about as near as gold weight wise as you can get...they sound exactly the same too...they feel heavy like gold in your hand as well..
Mud

 

[PSS1963]

Cool! Yeah tungsten is about as near as gold weight wise as you can get...they sound exactly the same too...they feel heavy like gold in your hand as well..
Mud

Yeah, mud tungsten and gold both have a density about 19.3 g/ml so they would be pretty much indistinguishable by a density test. I had no idea that they made rings out of this material. When I looked at the Wiki article on titanium and another on titanium rings it was clear that titanium was less than 1/4 the density of gold and should feel noticeably light in the hand.

Thanks Goldstrike - I learned something new!

-pete

 

[mudpuppy]

Well said PSS!

Titanium, Lustrium, Tungsten, Stainless steel, P4, Chrome, all sorts of crapola bastard amalgamations out there now a days...made into rings marketed and sold to an uneducated public for some pretty big dollars..

I hate them all, especially when a guy does everything right, gets up early, out on the hunt, hits a nice big ring right where one should be, and it turns out to be a damn junker! Worse than finding a pull tab actually..

Only solace is a guy read the 'signs' right, just the person who lost it had no respect or understanding of precious metals... it frosts my biscuit something fierce, since I'm in this sport for the money, and dont give a tinkers cuss about having 'fun' or 'enjoying' the hunt!.. Some of the nicer Junkers you can sell to the right young ignorant person though, they know they'd spend @$300 for one just like it at Sams Club! ...so I keep them, and try to get what I can...
Mud

 

[PSS1963]

Well said PSS!

Titanium, Lustrium, Tungsten, Stainless steel, P4, Chrome, all sorts of crapola bastard amalgamations out there now a days...made into rings marketed and sold to an uneducated public for some pretty big dollars..

I hate them all, especially when a guy does everything right, gets up early, out on the hunt, hits a nice big ring right where one should be, and it turns out to be a damn junker! Worse than finding a pull tab actually..

Only solace is a guy read the 'signs' right, just the person who lost it had no respect or understanding of precious metals... it frosts my biscuit something fierce, since I'm in this sport for the money, and dont give a tinkers cuss about having 'fun' or 'enjoying' the hunt!.. Some of the nicer Junkers you can sell to the right young ignorant person though, they know they'd spend @$300 for one just like it at Sams Club! ...so I keep them, and try to get what I can...
Mud

ROFLMAO!

 

[Ytcoinshooter]

Ought to be a law against making that crap! It fustrates us detectorists!