jamesthomas
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Just got off the phone with Dehaas barrels and they use 12L14 with .12 grooves, 6 groove 6 land barrel.
bob_g said:i would sure like to see some pictures of failed barrels, particularly those made of DOM or similar tube that was not drilled stock.
the reason i ask is this, for many years i did welding of various materials everything from cast iron to aluminum, and all sorts of steels.
any quality weld done to steel of good quality should be able to be dissected by a saw and one should not be able to tell the parent metal from the filler. a quality weld should be everybit as strong as the parent metal and there should be no reason to have a failure in the weld zone.
now take this welded part and work the part through a set of dies and the metal structure should be further improved to the point that it ought to be the same strength as the same part machined out of a solid round bar?
is it possible that some of the reported failures of barrels made of dom, were the result of cheap tubing, or maybe the use of something other than black powder, or maybe some other stress riser problem linked to the machining of the barrel?
it just seems like with the jury split on this topic, and given the www/youtube/forums , we would have pictures of dom barrels blown all to bits and easily found with a google search?
lots of questions, looking for answers
bob g
jerry huddleston said:Personally, I don't need to see a man getting electrocuted to believe that I shouldn't put my finger in the light socket. for what motive would we lie about this subject.
If nobody believes the answers why ask to start with. Or why should anybody bother to answer.
Why would ANYONE be out hunting in sub-zero weather? No game of any type is going to be active in those conditions so why be out in it? I would think that any metal be it 12L14, 1137 or any other type of barrel steel would shatter in those conditions if exposed to it long enough. I will have a Dehaas barrel (12L14) on my .40 when it's done and will have total confidence in it when I take it out on the range or hunting. I also remember that the barrels are hot-rolled now which is better. I may be wrong but I think I'm right. :grin:bob_g said:i have seen tools with carbon content such as crowbars and pipe wrenches break cleanly from the shock of being dropped on a concrete floor in sub zero temperatures.
so i don' think i would want those sorts of steels in my barrel and then think about using the gun in sub zero temperatures.
that i could see being a pipe bomb of the worst kind, the fragments would be like shards of glass.
bob g
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