Cardinal Armory announcement

[johnson]

http://www.68forums.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3117

In the past two weeks I have become aware of (yet another) problem with the barrels that have been shipping for the past year.

Art K of Silver State confirmed with calibrated ammo fired through one of our latest barrels that excess pressure is still being exhibited, even when the chambers have been reamed and polished. Velocities from test ammo were over 100 feet/sec lower than expected.

About a year ago I switched chrome companies. I made that change, trusting the advice of a company who has since then shown themselves to be severely challenged morally and ethically, but it was my decision to change and now the "chickens have come home to roost." Every problem that we have experienced has been due to this change. Chambers had excess chrome, and it took a while to work out a fix for this problem. Now it is virtually certain that the bores also have excess chrome. Over the weekend I ran lead slugs through barrels and found that the bores were as much as 0.0007 undersized. Excess chrome in the bore cannot be fixed. I know, I tried.

I am considering legal action against the company that has been doing the chrome for our barrels, because of the damage that has been done.

I have already contacted a company who is making air gage plugs to be able to air gage the bores of our barrels, and I have contacted the company that did our chrome at the beginning and informed them that all our barrels will be coing back to them.

Until we have barrels that have been air-gaged, I can no longer guarantee that the Cardinal Armory barrel you have will handle combat loads reliably. It will be at LEAST two montch before we have air gage equipment in-place.

I am going to lay it on the line with you. This is a serious problem. It is serious not from a technical aspect but from a business aspect.

I have made every effort to supply the best quality product that I could, at a reasonable price. What will happen to my company as a result of this remains to be seen.

- Tim

[rubberneck]

Whatever happened to trust but verify? Why would any intelligent businessman abdicate QC responsibility to a vendor? Why weren't they pulling random barrels as they came back from getting hard chromed to make sure that this sort of thing wasn't happening? Kudos to them for fessing up to it but their own admission they haven't been checking their barrels for a year. Yikes.