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Bartlein Press Release - New Barrel Material
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<blockquote data-quote="Hand Skills" data-source="post: 1947778" data-attributes="member: 103303"><p>If barrel life was as much of a concern as some make it out to be, we'd all be running hammer forged barrels, would we not? There is an abundance of military data on the subject.</p><p></p><p>I too am a bit of a sceptic when it comes to marketing vs. actual materials engineering, but Frank and the rest at Bartlein have never been in the hype business, as far as I've seen.</p><p></p><p>There are some really interesting 'nitrogen' based steels available today, where nitrogen is used instead of carbon. This type of steel is very difficult to manufacture, and hence very costly because the nitrogen wants to come out of the solution during manufacturing, and as a result an advanced set of environmental controls is required during manufacutre.</p><p></p><p>What's interesting to me is these nitrogen steels like LC200-N (developed with NASA for a corrosion proof bearing material to send to space) and Vancron / Niolox is they are very resistant to adhesive wear (galling) which is the probably the biggest contributor to barrel wear after thermal stress/fire cracking. I have been fooling around with nitrogen steels for a few years, mainly in the form of edged tools, and the properties are quite fascinating.</p><p></p><p>When I saw the headline, I was thinking this might be the route Bartlein is headed down, but based on the cost, I strongly doubt it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hand Skills, post: 1947778, member: 103303"] If barrel life was as much of a concern as some make it out to be, we'd all be running hammer forged barrels, would we not? There is an abundance of military data on the subject. I too am a bit of a sceptic when it comes to marketing vs. actual materials engineering, but Frank and the rest at Bartlein have never been in the hype business, as far as I've seen. There are some really interesting 'nitrogen' based steels available today, where nitrogen is used instead of carbon. This type of steel is very difficult to manufacture, and hence very costly because the nitrogen wants to come out of the solution during manufacturing, and as a result an advanced set of environmental controls is required during manufacutre. What's interesting to me is these nitrogen steels like LC200-N (developed with NASA for a corrosion proof bearing material to send to space) and Vancron / Niolox is they are very resistant to adhesive wear (galling) which is the probably the biggest contributor to barrel wear after thermal stress/fire cracking. I have been fooling around with nitrogen steels for a few years, mainly in the form of edged tools, and the properties are quite fascinating. When I saw the headline, I was thinking this might be the route Bartlein is headed down, but based on the cost, I strongly doubt it. [/QUOTE]
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