Is it titanium or not ? Flite saddle

[Joe*Pro]

Been tempted by this for a while, and whilst says titanium on the side the rails appear otherwise!! What you think ?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224521538162

 

[ishaw]

Rails say fec alloy so I'd say not ti myself. Could be wrong.

 

[nicktait1]

I think the ti railed Flites weigh a bit less than that one,220/230g versus 290g.

 

[Magpiegifts]

It's 100% not titanium. I bought one recently. Still a light, great looking saddle that's pretty similar to the original ti flite.
I messaged the seller to clarify exactly what saddle will I receive, he sent back a pic of a nubuck titanium railed flite saddle. Alas, a black railed flite saddle arrived!

 

[T'boo Ted]

The current re-issues are made with 316Ti, which is stainless steel.
It is alloyed with some teeny weeny amount of Ti , but not really a Titanium rail.
I know this as I was confused so I asked Selle Itaila directly and that is what they said "thanks for contacting us, yes the rail is made by both stainless steel and titanium. Selle Italia"
Looking up the specs of 316Ti, it is 0.7% Titanium

 

[rikster]

Bit of a price difference too between the "fec alloy" version and the "titanium" version...
https://www.wiggle.co.uk/selle-ital...VVeztCh1XqwnyEAQYASABEgK6b_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

 

[Joe*Pro]

Brilliant, thank you all for helping clarify my suspicions. 0.7% Ti might as well say 0.7% moon dust

 

[T'boo Ted]

I think, when they rolled out the re-issue a bunch of years ago, they were Titanium (well probably...hopefully, I bought 3 of them). then they stopped making them, then did another re-issue, thats when they switched to 316Ti (and this was on all of them, all the reissues, all the modern flites...I bought a modern one and it says 316 on the box...i did buy a NOS SLR that is titanium, and looks totally different that is bill as Titanium.

 

[Joe*Pro]

Most of mine are old, so hopefully Ti originals.

Can you tell from the underneath at all. Or is it just the year of manufacture ?

 

[T'boo Ted]

No real idea, jsut hypothesising, but the box/card thing that comes with new ones tells you what the rails are, if Ti then i would guess Ti, if 316Ti, then not Ti.
Sometimes the the listing is Ti as they assume it's Ti, or assume the 316Ti is Ti...sometimes they are listed as 316Ti (ot Ti316, whatever its called)