fluted barrel question
- Boriqua
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fluted barrel question
What gives with the fluted barrels? Is there some advantage or is it just for the cool factor ?
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Re: fluted barrel question
Less weight.
- Suck My Glock
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Re: fluted barrel question
Less weight AND more surface area for air-cooling. Personally, I have chosen straight fluted barrels for all my builds for the last 20 years.
Now,...the different STYLES of fluting,...yes, that's where it just gets silly for purposes of style and tacticool.
Now,...the different STYLES of fluting,...yes, that's where it just gets silly for purposes of style and tacticool.
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Re: fluted barrel question
Also more rigid and dissipates heat better.. and cool also
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Re: fluted barrel question
Less weight ... yes
More surface area for cooling .... yes
More rigid.... NO
Mechanically impossible to remove material and be more rigid... engineering 101.
Now ... it IS more rigid than a barrel having the same root diameter at the bottom of the flutes... but it is also heavier than the smaller diameter barrel now because “fins” have been “added”.... again... engineering 101.
Math don’t lie
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Re: fluted barrel question
Sorry, I guess I shoulda added of the same weightwas21 wrote: ↑August 3rd, 2021, 9:42 amLess weight ... yes
More surface area for cooling .... yes
More rigid.... NO
Mechanically impossible to remove material and be more rigid... engineering 101.
Now ... it IS more rigid than a barrel having the same root diameter at the bottom of the flutes... but it is also heavier than the smaller diameter barrel now because “fins” have been “added”.... again... engineering 101.
Math don’t lie
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Re: fluted barrel question
PS: and of the same materialdelta6 wrote: ↑August 3rd, 2021, 11:18 amSorry, I guess I shoulda added of the same weightwas21 wrote: ↑August 3rd, 2021, 9:42 amLess weight ... yes
More surface area for cooling .... yes
More rigid.... NO
Mechanically impossible to remove material and be more rigid... engineering 101.
Now ... it IS more rigid than a barrel having the same root diameter at the bottom of the flutes... but it is also heavier than the smaller diameter barrel now because “fins” have been “added”.... again... engineering 101.
Math don’t lie
engineering 102