Bill DeShivs
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Zamak must be painted or plated.
cocojo, I don't think this state regulation has anything to do with dealing with criminals. I believe the state thinks this is some form of consumer safety. In their minds any zinc alloy that melts at 800 degrees is unsafe for pistol components. But, you would need to ask them to be sure.I own two Walther PPK/s 22. One is Nickel plated and one is painted black. These are awesome 22 pistols and work fine. Steel firing pin block, barrel and parts. Just slide and frame are zamac of some type of a blend of metals which are pretty strong. The law you described is nonsense and hasn't done anything to ward off crime. Plastic frames on Glock's, Smith's, Sig's, XD's all melt below 800 degree's. Worthless piece of legislation, so they can say they did something but in reality accomplish nothing!
I think that problem was most often with the "target" model. Instead of using a seperate, longer slide, or just having the longer barrel sticking out of the slise they used a steel faux muzzle brake clamped on with set secrews. If it was fitted just slightly too far back the ZAMAK slide would slam against the solid steel block clamped to the barrel.Meanwhile something like a walther p22 zamak slide crack commonly.
That was actually mentioned in post #16:JohnKSa said:Probably worth pointing out that Zamak is actually a family of alloys. The material properties differ considerably over the various alloys.
Aguila Blanca said:Zamac is an alloy of zinc with varying amounts of aluminum, magnesium, and copper mixed in. (There are actually several "official" types of Zamac, and the amounts of the alloying elements vary from one type to another.)