
Originally Posted by
MistWolf
One of the few places a manufacturer can actually exceed mil-spec is by developing a manufacturing process for bolts that eliminates the need for HPT. HPT tests bolts and barrels at pressures beyond what they are designed to take. Each barrel and bolt has a limited, but unknown, over-pressure events it can withstand before it fails. Each time a bolt or barrel is HPT tested, that finite number is reduced by one. HPT testing can also start a failure within the part that is still within allowable limits, or even below detectable limits, yet set the part on the path of failure.
Some will insist a bolt must be made of Carpenter steel and must be HPT tested, yet it's interesting to note that KAC does neither
Centurion is also in the growing group of manufacturers that does not HPT test their bolts, specifically for the reasons you mentioned.
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