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    Titanium material in barrel

    Not sure if this has been posted but F1 has a "coming soon" barrel that uses titanium in the process. I've never heard of this and am curious of opinions. I figured this was a appropriate WEVO topic.

    Link: http://f-1firearms.com/titanium-coming-soon/

    Using the F-1 Firearms state-of-the-art barrel cell, blanks are drilled, reamed and button rifled in-house to ensure quality, straightness of the boreline, and QA/QC. The blanks are then contoured in house and sent to our partner who applies a patented Cold Spray Titanium to the OD of the 416RSS pencil barrel. The Titanium is actually metallurgically bonded to the 4164SS. The Barrels are brought back in-house and contoured to the F-1 Firearms Med Contour standard yielding up to 45% in weight reduction while maintaining a full-auto rating.

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    Aesthetic coating.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SINNER View Post
    Aesthetic coating.
    Just like chrome lining is an aesthetic coating. I mean chrome. Bling bling.


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    The "OD" is a clue...

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    I was just thinking to myself the other day, "I wish there was a more expensive way to make barrels"

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    Quote Originally Posted by SINNER View Post
    The "OD" is a clue...
    So they apply the titanium, then bring it back in house to machine the profile down, removing the titanium they just applied? Does that make sense to you?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Aberration79 View Post
    So they apply the titanium, then bring it back in house to machine the profile down, removing the titanium they just applied? Does that make sense to you?
    That confused me too.

    Seems the benefit they boast is a pencil barrel weight that stands up to heat. But it's not clear to me what exactly is going on.

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    Be interesting to read initial reviews...

    I guess Proof needed a competitor lol
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    Quote Originally Posted by BoilerUp View Post
    I was just thinking to myself the other day, "I wish there was a more expensive way to make barrels"
    HAHAAA!!!

    Exactly!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aberration79 View Post
    So they apply the titanium, then bring it back in house to machine the profile down, removing the titanium they just applied? Does that make sense to you?


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    It's likely a dynamic gas deposition spray so it's basically a surface treatment. Think shooting metal so hard at another metal it bonds. That description of their process makes no sense at all. Says they profile it twice for instance. And it would make no sense to apply a surface treatment just the machine it off. If they expect me to believe it's affecting the parent metal deep enough to cut a standard profile down to a pencil after application I'd like to see the proof. i won't hold my breath waiting.

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    It sounds like a really pathetically worded way of saying "We wrap a steel liner in Ti for weight reduction".

    Think aluminum .22 barrels from Tac
    Think CF wrapped barrels from PROOF
    This sounds like "Ti sleeved" to me.

    Might be wrong though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BoilerUp View Post
    I was just thinking to myself the other day, "I wish there was a more expensive way to make barrels"
    Ha...ha..ha..ha.. I ask myself that question about a lot of gun stuff. To feed the insatiable desire of gun people, and lacking any real improvement over existing products, how do the aftermarket folks come up with something obscure, is this weeks hot topic, yesterday's news, and cost 50% more than the product they are replacing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aberration79 View Post
    Just like chrome lining is an aesthetic coating. I mean chrome. Bling bling.
    I thought chrome lining is used for corrosion resistance?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Thompson View Post
    I thought chrome lining is used for corrosion resistance?
    It is. Pretty sure that was sarcasm. What good would it do to provide aesthetics where you can't see it?
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    Chrome lining is used for increased bore hardness, and therefore a longer lasting barrel.

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