blown up bronze barrel ??

[dan610324]

is it anyone who actually have any evidence that a bronze barrel ever have blown up during action with a standard service load ??

not sabotage , proof testing or any other odd circumstances , just during normal firing with standard service loads .

cast iron pieces I know was considered to be quite unsafe compared to bronze .
so it would be very interesting if anyone had any other opinion 

[KABAR2]

I have not heard of a bronze cannon failing with a standard service load,

the one gun I remember reading about in back in the 1970's was a bronze gun

with a cored bore, it was being used at a college football game I do not remember

the bore size but they used 1 pound of powder and packed it with wet news paper,

the gun did not blow up but the chaplets that supported the core when the gun was

cast were blown out the side of the gun damaging some parked cars.

[dan610324]

he he he , 1 pound and wet newspaper .  WOW

and that was in a core cast gun that is considerably weaker than a solid cast and bored gun
I guess you would need a really high pressur before you will blow the chaplets out
but that just show another thing , how dangerous it can be when modern people without the correct knowledge tries to duplicate old manufacturing methods .
in an old gun the chaplets would have been irregular shaped just to prevent such an thing happening
and most often they also was tin coated prior to the pour just to be sure that they will stay where they are

its a pity that you cant remember the bore size