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- From: PATE@VXC.UNCWIL.EDU (BILL PATE, ADMIN. SERVICES, PATE@VXC.UNCWIL.EDU)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Soldering and Barrel Hardness
- Message-ID: <A86D3C27487FC0249F@VXC.UNCWIL.EDU>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 23:47:41 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- #> draw the temper out of the steel, which will leave it 1/2 hard at
- #> the very best, abd probably less so. Not only that, but heating a
- #> barrel to that temp., especially at one end only, is virtually
- #> guaranteed to distort the barrel over its length.
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- I was not aware that barrels were tempered or even very hard. If they were,
- I think they would crack under the pressure surge of firing. Barrels bend very
- readily, which further leads me to believe they are not hardened and
- tempered like tools. A file will skate across a hard tool without cutting,
- but a barrel can be filed quite easily.
-
- I think the heat distortion would be a problem, however. Just my $.02.
-