Dumb question

[THE X-MAN]

I saw the new stuff finally this weekend..........hinge system blows,stupid weak and fragile.but the rest of the frame i liked.

 

[Rustpot]

If machining frame components was more efficient / cost effective than casting, I'm sure they would have done that initially, instead of going through all the pain they had to in order to develop a method of casting Ti alloy into such small, thin pieces.

And they outsource their frame manufacture to China these days anyway; doubt the factories making sunglasses are set up for CNC already...

Titanium wasn't nearly as ubiquitous in the early 90's as it is today. Finding a company capable of producing the X-Metals would probably be somewhat easier today, but I've said in other threads the process as a whole isn't cutting edge; it's dated. Cast is a 20th century tech (well, technically MUCH older than that) but it's no longer a technological achievement.

 

[dingo ate my baby]

So was the time bomb cast or machined ?