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Why is there no coatings used in rifle throats to slow erosion?
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<blockquote data-quote="theflyonthewall" data-source="post: 584497" data-attributes="member: 35305"><p>The ideology behind my idea is to engineer a "throat" that can be screwed into the action. The barrel can then be screwed into the new throat. The point is not only to allow the throat to be replaceable, but to engineer it so that the barrel life can be extended as long as possible. So it's quite possible that the throat itself may need to contain the throat, and possibly the first inch or two of the rifling as well.</p><p></p><p>What's understood already:</p><p>1. Machining costs are going to be higher initially than that of a standard barrel replacement.</p><p>2. The rifling would have to be "timed" between the throat and the barrel as these two become mated in assembly.</p><p>3. A clone of the original throat may need to be kept as a blueprint so that a smith could pull precise measurements from this clone to machine any future throats that a customer decides to purchase for THAT RIFLE and barrel.</p><p></p><p>What's unknown to me:</p><p>1. Is this idea as feasible as it seems to me? Or is there some massive oversight that makes it nearly impossible.</p><p>2. Can all three of these parts be mated as precisely as would be required so that one ends up with an equally accurate rifle, as that rifle was in it's unaltered form?</p><p>3. Is there a better way to incorporate a replaceable throat into an otherwise traditional bolt action rifle?</p><p>4. Can a system be designed to allow the DIY guy to change his own throats that he gets from his smith?</p><p></p><p>No one needs to worry about directly answering the above questions. I was just trying to establish what questions I have floating around in my brain in conjunction with the drawing above.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="theflyonthewall, post: 584497, member: 35305"] The ideology behind my idea is to engineer a "throat" that can be screwed into the action. The barrel can then be screwed into the new throat. The point is not only to allow the throat to be replaceable, but to engineer it so that the barrel life can be extended as long as possible. So it's quite possible that the throat itself may need to contain the throat, and possibly the first inch or two of the rifling as well. What's understood already: 1. Machining costs are going to be higher initially than that of a standard barrel replacement. 2. The rifling would have to be "timed" between the throat and the barrel as these two become mated in assembly. 3. A clone of the original throat may need to be kept as a blueprint so that a smith could pull precise measurements from this clone to machine any future throats that a customer decides to purchase for THAT RIFLE and barrel. What's unknown to me: 1. Is this idea as feasible as it seems to me? Or is there some massive oversight that makes it nearly impossible. 2. Can all three of these parts be mated as precisely as would be required so that one ends up with an equally accurate rifle, as that rifle was in it's unaltered form? 3. Is there a better way to incorporate a replaceable throat into an otherwise traditional bolt action rifle? 4. Can a system be designed to allow the DIY guy to change his own throats that he gets from his smith? No one needs to worry about directly answering the above questions. I was just trying to establish what questions I have floating around in my brain in conjunction with the drawing above. [/QUOTE]
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