first design
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2020 4:32 am
Hey all,
I've been thinking up of a design for my first form 1 can. I haven't bought anything but I'm going to be using an apogee 7.5" steel tube with an SDTA muzzle brake & mount. Apologies since I'm not a good sketcher, but here's what I've made so far. It's missing quite a few measurements but the parts are drawn to scale, if that helps. I'll try to give as many details as I can.
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The 3/4" skirt and skirtless cones are stainless steel. Everything's sized correctly, the only thing I'm unsure of is the muzzle brake since I'm basing my design off of one that is visually identical to SDTA just with different threading. My intended use for this can is to use on both my AR-15 and AR-10, but mostly the AR-15. My first question is about the baffle stack. I've read that more space between the baffles is better on rifle rounds than more baffles, so that points me to the 2nd design. But 6 baffles seems like I'm wasting the tube space. Am I going in the right direction with these designs?
The other question I have is about how much it would hurt the 5.56 suppression to have the can bore in .30 cal. Is it possible for a .375" bore to still decently suppress 5.56, or would it only work for 308? Any suggestions appreciated.
I've been thinking up of a design for my first form 1 can. I haven't bought anything but I'm going to be using an apogee 7.5" steel tube with an SDTA muzzle brake & mount. Apologies since I'm not a good sketcher, but here's what I've made so far. It's missing quite a few measurements but the parts are drawn to scale, if that helps. I'll try to give as many details as I can.
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The 3/4" skirt and skirtless cones are stainless steel. Everything's sized correctly, the only thing I'm unsure of is the muzzle brake since I'm basing my design off of one that is visually identical to SDTA just with different threading. My intended use for this can is to use on both my AR-15 and AR-10, but mostly the AR-15. My first question is about the baffle stack. I've read that more space between the baffles is better on rifle rounds than more baffles, so that points me to the 2nd design. But 6 baffles seems like I'm wasting the tube space. Am I going in the right direction with these designs?
The other question I have is about how much it would hurt the 5.56 suppression to have the can bore in .30 cal. Is it possible for a .375" bore to still decently suppress 5.56, or would it only work for 308? Any suggestions appreciated.