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Carbon fiber wrapped barrels
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<blockquote data-quote="preventec47" data-source="post: 2015495" data-attributes="member: 22159"><p>A CF barrel is NOT stiffer than the same cross section metal barrel. However a CF barrel IS stiffer than a same weight metal barrel partly because the CF cross section would be much bigger. I am curious, on the rifles using CF wrapped around a steel inner core, are they usually wrapped to larger diameters than the solid steel barrels ? In other words do the CF barrels look like TARGET barrel rifles ? My concern with CF barrels is that there is no CF technology that does not involve an adhesive matrix and right now the best matrix is hi temp epoxy. BUT it is not very high temp compared to glowing red metal. I believe that it would</p><p>be pretty easy to damage a CF barrel by shooting it to the temp at which the epoxy matrix suffers damage. I would say shoot it till hot to touch and then no more until the barrel cools.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="preventec47, post: 2015495, member: 22159"] A CF barrel is NOT stiffer than the same cross section metal barrel. However a CF barrel IS stiffer than a same weight metal barrel partly because the CF cross section would be much bigger. I am curious, on the rifles using CF wrapped around a steel inner core, are they usually wrapped to larger diameters than the solid steel barrels ? In other words do the CF barrels look like TARGET barrel rifles ? My concern with CF barrels is that there is no CF technology that does not involve an adhesive matrix and right now the best matrix is hi temp epoxy. BUT it is not very high temp compared to glowing red metal. I believe that it would be pretty easy to damage a CF barrel by shooting it to the temp at which the epoxy matrix suffers damage. I would say shoot it till hot to touch and then no more until the barrel cools. [/QUOTE]
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