Uberti cartridge cylinder soft as mush

TV ? there's only 3 good channels:

History Channel
Fox News
AMC (American Movie Classics)- really liked the spaghetti western week last month...


the other channels, they can have- it's all filler and advertising
 
As I was having breakfast this morning, I tried something.

Since I was eating oatmeal, which is similar to mush, I tried molding it into a cylinder. :rolleyes:

Unfortunately, when I put it all on a lathe to round it out, it fell apart. :eek:

I just don't see how Uberti can make any cylinder out of mush. :confused:

Did I miss something here??? :D

The Doc is out now. :cool:
 
Meanwhile back in the real world, Colt itself did not start heat treating guns till between WWI and WWII.

This means the Colt peacemaker was soft as mush. The Colt 1917 was soft as mush too and the New Service.....

Yet we don't see many complaints.....

Gunsmiths who have worked on original 19th century guns tell me that while the old guns were better made, the new ones are made with better steels and are usually heat treated better.
 
Not a surprise. Even lowly 1018 steel (pretty "mushy" as far as steels go) has an ultimate tensile strength somewhere north of 60K psi.
 
Colt itself did not start heat treating guns till between WWI and WWII.
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You keep repeating this all over the place and it is entirely wrong. Case hardening is a form of heat treatment. Colt case hardened the frames, gates, hammers, triggers, bolts and hands. They were NOT "soft as mush". Colt began heat treating the frames to withstand higher pressures in the 1920's.
 
He knows it's wrong. He posts erroneous information and inflammatory statements just to get people to respond to him. The more you respond, the more he'll post. Notice that he's buying these 'mushy' guns that are worthless. Just ignore him. He'll go away eventually.
 
Colt case hardened the frames, gates, hammers, triggers, bolts and hands. They were NOT "soft as mush".
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Seems like the OP referred to cylinders, which don't appear on that list.

Did Colt heat-treat cylinders prior to the 20th Century?

Case- or face-hardening is a form of heat-treatment - it (as the name implies) forms a hard but typically very thin layer on the surface - but it's done to reduce wear, not increase strength.
 
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