To: archy
Add mass to the gas tube, and some cooling fins. That’d be the easiest patch. Next, try better materials. Tungsten perhaps. A water jacket sounds like a crazy idea to me.
132 posted on
04/11/2008 8:52:43 AM PDT by
mamelukesabre
(Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?)
To: mamelukesabre
Add mass to the gas tube, and some cooling fins. That’d be the easiest patch. Next, try better materials. Tungsten perhaps. A water jacket sounds like a crazy idea to me. The application was for a test fixture gun used for testing largish quantities of M856 tracer ammo for the M16A2. Why they didn't just use an M249 is unknown to me, but....
134 posted on
04/11/2008 9:35:35 AM PDT by
archy
(Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. [from Virgil's *Aeneid*.])
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