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Offline smokemjoe

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Steel Tube Stock
« on: February 13, 2010, 03:39:39 AM »
I can get a  tube that is 4 in. round and a 1- 7/8s bore X 5 foot long, What could be it made into and what about a mold or what to shoot in it. Thanks.
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Re: Steel Tube Stock
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2010, 06:19:17 AM »
You need to know what it is besides steel, 1018, 4140, DOM, seamless etc.
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Re: Steel Tube Stock
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2010, 07:05:55 AM »
its 1018 seamless.
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Offline GGaskill

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Re: Steel Tube Stock
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2010, 07:14:33 AM »
You would have to make a chambered breech plug or sleeve reinforce the area over the chamber to have a barrel that met the forum safety recommendations.  Otherwise, the wall thickness is too thin.
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Re: Steel Tube Stock
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2010, 09:52:43 AM »
Quote from: smokemjoe on February 13, 2010, 07:05:55 AM
its 1018 seamless.

1018 is GOOD.  Strong, will handle both the pressures and the repition.

Seamless is GOOD.  Does not have porosity where products of combustion will eat away and eventually cause a KABOOM.

Material - OK, now the design.
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Re: Steel Tube Stock
« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2010, 01:41:27 PM »
You could make 2 (yes 2) .40 scale Dahlgren Boatguns, 27.4" long tube!  Fit a breechplug, with round cascabel;  thread the cascabel with 7/8X6 Acme thread....
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Re: Steel Tube Stock
« Reply #6 on: February 14, 2010, 04:31:04 PM »
Quote from: shotgun31 on February 14, 2010, 01:41:27 PM
You could make 2 (yes 2) .40 scale Dahlgren Boatguns, 27.4" long tube!  Fit a breechplug, with round cascabel;  thread the cascabel with 7/8X6 Acme thread....
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How does he deal with the thin walls of the tube?
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Re: Steel Tube Stock
« Reply #7 on: February 14, 2010, 04:42:11 PM »
Got to chamber the breechplug. 
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