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    Quote Originally Posted by Txfilmmaker View Post
    Makes sense. I saw comments on full 30.com that indicated people were impressed that the barrel lasted that long. It's kind of funny that watching a barrel get destroyed helps sell barrels. This barrel was stainless steel which is not supposed to hold up to the heat as well as a 4150 barrel would. According to the comments.

    I was pretty impressed by the barrel being stainless steel. That's for sure. That said getting into metallurgy and all that is a whole different ball of wax. Different products are meant for different things and full auto is really a speciality thing if you ask me, the hardness, the heat, how the metal expands, and at what temperature, etc etc. I've tried to burn the barrel off of an MP5... we had that thing just SMOKING but not all barrels need to be able to stand up to that kind of abuse. I don't know what kind of metals are in an HK but it ain't stainless steel :)

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    That was fun. Would have liked to have had a second camera for closer slo-mo view of the "red zone."

    I once watched a malfunctioning M-60 run through a 100 rd belt. All the prone shooter could do was hang on. The barrel turned bright cherry but held up.

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    I'm honestly surprised they didn't use a milspec chrome lined barrel like in the original test they emulated


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    Holy hell!!! lol I was expecting the gas tube to go well before the barrel exploded lol.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JHoward View Post
    How's that?
    At 8:18 the gas tube fails and V7's Inconel tube has a much higher heat failure threshold.

    http://www.v7weaponsystems.com/colle...nment-gas-tube
    Last edited by Stone; 29 January 2015 at 10:33.

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    Thought he said the gas tube was fine?

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    Quote Originally Posted by DutyUse View Post
    Thought he said the gas tube was fine?
    He did. You can't help but not see the barrel explode and the area when he takes it down.

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    Your right. His initial statement at 8:18 was "The gas tubes done" But then after further inspection and editing I suppose, said it was a barrel failure. I was fast forwarding and rewinding so much I missed that part. My bad...

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    Anyone who has seen a video like this expected a gas tube failure, it looked like several times it was close to rupturing.

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