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- From: justice@Panix.Com (Michael Justice)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Gun engineering & materials info needed
- Message-ID: <199301230541.AA00642@sun.Panix.Com>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 15:59:36 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Panix Public Access Internet & Unix, NYC
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- Regrettably, I am a software nerd, not a mechanical engineer.
- ("Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a _________!")
-
- I have a gun design that I would like to build. Unfortunately,
- I know nothing about what steels to use, how the pieces should
- be hardened, how much pounding the different parts will have to
- endure, or how the different bearing surfaces should be treated
- to minimize wear on the less-easily-replaceable parts.
-
- Can anyone point me in the direction of some introductory books?
- If they're directly oriented toward firearms, that would be most
- excellent, although just about anything would do. Something on
- building car engines from scratch (no junkyard parts) would be
- perfect. Engineering texts would be fine.
-
- Thanks for any pointers!
-
- Some design information, for the curious:
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- It's basically a Gatling gun, with a few quirks. I've shown it
- to a couple of people, and the consensus is that as long as I
- build it strong enough to stand the explosions, it should work.
-
- Two concerns are about the bolts and the track they ride on.
- (1) will the track get dented from the bolts pounding back at
- each shot, and (2) will the bolts or the track get worn down
- by sliding around against each other all the time?
-
- The cartridge will be whatever is HARSHEST on guns among the
- standard short auto cartridges (.22LR, 9mm, .40S&W, .45ACP),
- since one goal is to make calibers interchangeable, and
- overengineering for .22 is preferable to blowing up with 9mm.
- Design life will have to be in the hundreds-of-thousands of
- rounds, naturally.
-
- Barrel-wise, I'll just be using T/C Contender barrels; the
- bolts and magazine adapters will have to be interchangeable
- as well, however.
-
- Thanks,
-
- -- Michael.
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