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I was on another site and an individual commented that he had a catastrophic failure with his homemade suppressor on a 7 ½ inch barrel. See attached link.
Couple of questions
1. Can a tube come away unscathed from this type of failure as claimed?
2. On a 7 ½ inch AR15 type rifle, would a cone work better than a mono-core?
3. It was also stated by another that even Inconel would not last on a 7 1/2 inch barrel
Your input please.
1rosta wrote:I was on another site and an individual commented that he had a catastrophic failure with his homemade suppressor on a 7 ½ inch barrel. See attached link.
Couple of questions
1. Can a tube come away unscathed from this type of failure as claimed?
2. On a 7 ½ inch AR15 type rifle, would a cone work better than a mono-core?
3. It was also stated by another that even Inconel would not last on a 7 1/2 inch barrel
Your input please.
Can you post the pictures? Unless we are registered we can't see them.
1 - Entirely possible that a tube would be salvageable if it was a catastrophic failure, but again until we see the pics we can't make that full assessment. More often than not the answer is no.
2 - You are asking for problems suppressed a 7.5" AR15 in 5.56mm.
3 - They are correct Inconel would be chewed up really quickly in a 7.5"....ask me how I know!
HE can't legally repair it himself, he can send it to an 07/02 to have it repaired though but he can not do the work himself.
Bendersquint wrote:...
Can you post the pictures? Unless we are registered we can't see them.
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No tube present in the post failure picture.
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1rosta wrote:Thanks, I was just trying to load photos.
I didn't think a tube could make it through this.
It wouldn't not with that damage. If there were skid marks on the tube then its reasonable to believe that the cap came off and the core shot down range but with it crunched the way it is there is no doubt in my mind that the tube didn't survive.
1rosta wrote:I was on another site and an individual commented that he had a catastrophic failure with his homemade suppressor on a 7 ½ inch barrel. See attached link.
Couple of questions
1. Can a tube come away unscathed from this type of failure as claimed?
2. On a 7 ½ inch AR15 type rifle, would a cone work better than a mono-core?
3. It was also stated by another that even Inconel would not last on a 7 1/2 inch barrel
Your input please.
Glad nobody was injured....kinda supports the no aluminum and no shorter than 10.5 inches guidelines. That 25000+psi pressure out the muzzle of a "pistol" barrel is a bitch.....guessing it kicked pretty hard to
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rqlasl wrote:Wow, thats some serious damage!....
Nobody was hurt?!
Nothing in the post and magically the tube survived without any problems and the tube is aluminum as well!
Yeah, in the post he said all he had to do was chase the threads on the tube and they're fine ... I find it hard to believe the tube is still round or that the chased thread don't have some kind of torque damage. A hi-res post of a post failure tube picture would go a long way toward making me a believer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDtd2jNIwAU MUSAFAR!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI This is Water DavidW
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rqlasl wrote:Wow, thats some serious damage!....
Nobody was hurt?!
Nothing in the post and magically the tube survived without any problems and the tube is aluminum as well!
Yeah, in the post he said all he had to do was chase the threads on the tube and they're fine ... I find it hard to believe the tube is still round or that the chased thread don't have some kind of torque damage. A hi-res post of a post failure tube picture would go a long way toward making me a believer.
It didn't happen, if he had to chase the threads it lost its integrity. Its aluminum not SS.
He is totally full of it. I can't believe for a nanosecond that the tube isn't damaged. That core must have been shot into a rock at point blank to suffer that kind of damage without hurting the tube.
See attached link.
