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- From: fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (steve hix)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Fluted barrel
- Message-ID: <9301261959.AA24576@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 03:39:16 GMT
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- In article <9301221128.AA21122@smuggler.Utah.univel.COM> Thi_Huynh@univel.COM writes:
- #Hi netters,
- #
- #I just ordered a Bushmaster XM15-E2 from Quality Parts with a fluted
- #barrel for $790 (OUCH!). From their catalog, they claimed rigidity
- #is increased by 20 to 25%, among other things such as better cooling
- #and weight reduction.
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- More cooling from increased surface area.
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- Weight reduced by grinding material off.
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- The fluted barrel would be x% stiffer than an unfluted barrel of about
- the same weight. The stiffness of a barrel (or other cylinder) increases
- faster than the diameter increase. I used to know the function for
- stiffness increase back when I was trying to decide between a skinny-tube
- steel-frame bicycle and a fat-tube aluminum frame.
-
- Fatter is better.
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