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Old 01-06-2014, 09:48 PM
diamond k diamond k is offline
 
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Originally Posted by Team Anzac View Post
When that barrel heats up its going to do some crazy deflecting, due to spiral fluting. Only an educated guess. Try a test piece with similar steel, heat it up and see what happens.
Your exactly correct. There are some barrels spiral fluted but there is a opposing spiral that intercect on the barrel. the only way to prevent it from twisting. Think of a tube from wrapping paper on where they seperate. Barrel is just kind of an extreme exaple of same thing.
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