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20 May 2016, 21:20 #16
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21 May 2016, 03:42 #17
Wow. Okay. I read something wrong in the RA description. More proof this week needs to be over, as if I needed more. I still think a high porosity casting in Ti would be lighter and far surpass the metallurgical qualities of Al-Li alloy.
There's no "Team" in F**K YOU!
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23 May 2016, 21:00 #18
$300 plus for what again , a few ounces lighter then std..
Da fuq..
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23 May 2016, 21:22 #19
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23 May 2016, 21:27 #20
V for Vendetta? That what you're alluring to?
-One Nation, Under God
-"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." ~ Michael Althsuler
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23 May 2016, 21:44 #21
Yes. I can't be the only one thinking that.
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23 May 2016, 21:47 #22New Member
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Hmm I may have to shorten my 4th show so I can add that to my rainier cart. It sure looks nice.
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23 May 2016, 22:28 #23LEO / MIL
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It looks fantastic, and I love all of my V7 components, but I just can't justify the extra expense right now since I'm trying to lay in some rainy-day forged lowers for after the election.
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24 May 2016, 03:53 #24
OT: Stronger? Billet is allegedly more prone to some stresses than forged because of some difference in molecular density. Seems like a long reach into a deep, dark place.
In real life, has anyone here bent, or broken either? I'd be interested in how many receivers have been tweaked by the average user. I can't even think of a scenario other than maybe a HALO jump, where an AR receiver failed!There's no "Team" in F**K YOU!
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24 May 2016, 03:57 #25
BOT: "Just to be different" is a good enough reason for me, but sinner' right; that boxy, afterthought trigger guard cuts that number down.
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24 May 2016, 08:12 #26
I also disagree with the assumption it's stronger. If you took the same exact forging and machined it exactly the same you may see a strength improvement. But considering most improvements are in the 4-5% range over 7075, I would bet the more substantial billet lowers are much stronger. The stronger claims are likely over a standard forged lower but even those may very well be equal strength or better after all the material is removed for the lightening cuts. Given the 2055 alloy is a more rigid parent metal those lowers may even be more brittle than 7075.
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24 May 2016, 08:37 #27
I think the idea here is just to build a light weight component.
The typical way you do that is to remove as much material as you can. After you have removed as much material as you can, you need a lighter and/or stronger (for the same weight) material.
This is exactly what BCM did with the KMR rail. You can only make an aluminum rail so light. So they used a lighter alloy.
So V7 is doing the same thing here. Using the alloy makes it lighter over aluminum. I don't know if they used less material than an aluminum part would have required, but the key thing is it's lighter.
The alloy is stronger than aluminum so they say that in the marketing blurb. Why wouldn't you? I think they are mostly trying to communicate that even though this part is light weight, it isn't delicate - not that this is the strongest lower on earth.
In pursuit of light weight, you have to go to more and more extremes if you don't want to give up performance and those extremes cost more.
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24 May 2016, 21:57 #28Senior Member
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24 May 2016, 22:18 #29LEO / MIL
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Hodge Defense is using AlLi for their Au-2, not to save weight, but to add extra material for the same weight as a standard lower.
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26 May 2016, 22:20 #30