Originally Posted by
ColtSeavers
As I posted in the quoted link, the benefit of nitriding a barrel is removed if the nitrided layer of the bore must be removed to allow chrome plating (not uncluding the benefit of the outside of the barrel being nitrided).
My curiosity comes from whether the nitrided layer within the bore must be removed to allow chrome plating to begin with, or if something can be changed in either procedure to allow the to barrel finishes to be applied and have thier effects remain inact to additively applied.
You say that a barrel can be nitrided and then chrome plated, assuming the nitrided layer within the bore remains intact and the chrome plating applied over it, why, exactly, are the effects not cumulative or additive?
Your second pargraph in the post I quoted does not help me understand. I am not trying to be obtuse, but I do admit to having not read up on the subject in some time and being not as interested in the topic as I once was.
And no, I do not subscribe to the line of thinking that just because it's not being done that way that it means that it's already been tried, tested and found wanting. I need a bit more than that.
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