Fluidized Bed Nitrocarburization process is also very well thought of by none other than Mike Rock of Rock Creek Barrels. When Mike Rock speaks metallurgy and barrels I LISTEN INTENTLY...
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Fluidized Bed Nitrocarburization process is also very well thought of by none other than Mike Rock of Rock Creek Barrels. When Mike Rock speaks metallurgy and barrels I LISTEN INTENTLY...
"One cannot awaken a man who pretends to be asleep..."
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Hexavalent Chromium, which is the version generally used for chrome plating, is on the list of verboten materials according to the RoHS initiative foisted upon us by the EU and then accepted by the EPA and various asinine administrations. On that count LAV is correct. Sadly, chrome plating as we know it is gong the way of the dodo bird.
Everyone on here can debate all they want. Scientifically, it has been proven that both chromed and Stainless barrels work just fine. Im not sure why people question why major firearms manufactureres like S&W and even LWRC use a nitriding process on ALL of their barrels. Stop debating about it and just accept that its not the 1970s or even 80s anymore and companies have developed ways of not only making barrels just as hard if not harder, last longer, and have natural lubricity built into them.
Dont believe me....just take your hand and run it over the end of a barrel of a higher end weapon like an Aramlite and then run it over a Smith and Wesson that has been melonite coated. Then come back and tell me that they feel the same. not arguing....but I would hope people would want companies to ffind better and cheaper ways to make better, harder and more accurate barrels that are easier to clean.
My rant is over.
While I agree that technology marches onward (and using Tuftride/Melonite/Tenifer/SBN there is no way to tell which is harder by simply running your hand over two barrels. What you're feeling is surface roughness differences only.
Personally, I'd like a cold hammer forged, polygonal rifled chromium barrel, cryo it to precipitate carbides, then melonite then hard chrome. But that's just me...
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Huuhhh???
Lot of confusion in your rant.
I question what a lot of AR makers do, especially LWRC.
So, "work just fine" is now a scientific conclusion? So, why change from chrome since it has been scientifically proven...?
And...Armalite (I assume) is now a high-end gun?
How does how it "feels" to my hand make it better or worse....?
But maybe it's just me...
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No, the Chromium plating process produces Hazardous Waste that must be specially disposed of.
Modern Nitriding processes generate little to no Hazmat. I think you are referring to the Eurpoean method using Cyanide Salts.
The plater is charged a fee by the drum to dispose of it by a company liscensed to recieve and dispose of Hazardous Waste. I think sometimes the manufacturer will take it back for a fee and re-process it into new solution.
In the olden days he let it go down the drain to the sewage treatment plant but the plants no longe accept untreated wastestreams due to contamination of their Biosolids.
They can only land-apply if the solids meet or are under a threshold value, otherwise, the sludge is considered Hazwaste and it would be a disposal nightmare from a cost perspective.
Trust me, I know this.
Last edited by Heavy Metal; 02-26-12 at 23:49.
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