Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Stainless tubing/gun drill

WRT hammer forged, mandrel shaped rifle barrels, I am certain Remington
and many others, have been doing that for years.

Regards,

Craig

Bill Vance wrote:

>
> On Wed Jan 2 22:34:43 2002, nielsenbe@..., <nielsenbe@...> wrote:
>
> >don't confuse gun magazines with accurate information. There are dozens of
> >barrel makers and if there were mystical barrels from somewhere else someone
> >would copy thier setup. The barrels made by kreiger, hart and many others are
> >probably more accurate than bullets can be made.
>
> When they can show pics of the shop/personel, I would think it a little better
> than, "mystical". What's that saying? A good craftsman never blames his tools.
> Speed of operation does not mean the end product is better or more accurate, et
> al. Nor does it mean that the products of a complex, modern shop are
> necessarily superior to those of a primitive one. Care and craftsmanship when
> dealling with a multitude of finicky details is not something a lot of people
> want to have to deal with.
>
> As an example, the master metalsmiths of the world for almost a thousand years,
> (the Vikings), made the most durable and beautiful pattern welded Damascus steel
> sword blades in the world. There are a bunch of people today, who don't want
> to go to all the time/trouble of making one in a modern shop. How many fewer do
> you suppose there are who'd like to do it as the Vikings did, with a hole in the
> ground for their forge, and an appropriate sized/shapped rock for their anvil,
> and another rock to pound with?
>
> FWIW, I understand that the straightest, most accurate barrels _in_mass_
> _production_, are being done in Canada for our M-16's. A negatively rifled rod,
> (mandrel?), has a pair of tubes slide over it, one for the rifling, one for the
> barrel proper. The whole shebang is then inserted into a rotary hammer, and
> cold forged into a rifle barrel.
>
> Bill
>
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