Hope mono rear freehub bodies how to tell if Ti, Alloy or S

[mezzanine]

How do you tell whether you have a steel body, alloy or Titanium?

I bought this one last year from development_cycle and just finding my feet with the old Hope hubs and how they differ in details.
viewtopic.php?f=39&t=384605 Is this one I have steel? The freebody is black and the hub feels quite heavy.

Also see this line up of old Hope hubs here - https://factoryjackson.com/2016/01/04/h ... pro-4-hub/ If you look at the first picture of the hubs all in a line am I right in thinking the blue one is steel, the red Titanium (glide) and the middle black (proto) hub alloy?

I looked online and can't find a picture of the different materials all lined up. Obviously Titanium will look dull grey and alloy a shinny silver but apart from that any other clues?

Many thanks
Have a super ride.
Mezz

 

[mk one]

Magnet!? and yes, the blue one you have is steel.

Mark

 

[mezzanine]

Thanks Mark, glad mine is the robust steel version. I have another that's silver but it's covered in dirt so until I give it a good clean I can't quite tell if it's titanium or alloy. Hoping it's Ti...

 

[Timoth27]

Re:

from left to right I think it’s: steel, titanium, alloy, alloy, alloy but happy to be corrected. As mark has said yours is steel.

 

[dyna-ti]

The ti always looks ti. The later freehubs were alloy or steel, only the early ones up to bulb had a ti version.
Of that line up, screw on, 2x ti glides, looks like a pro 2, pro2 evo likely and the pro 4.
I have them all :facepalm:
Everything up to but not including the pro 2 had the ti freehub option. Pro 2 on it was only a choice of steel or alloy, they'd dropped the Ti, even as an option.
The bitter cynic in me say alloy wears out quicker and pays for those bloody expensive cnc machines that they cannot stop buying.
If its black,dark,whatever dark its steel. Only other is ti, and is shiny and remains clean and with a sheen even after years of use.

The mono in the for sale thread is steel.

Years, especially the newer pro2's etc, had end caps that plugged into a hollow axle. the earlier were mostly a solid axle and the end caps have holes through them.