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Can someone explain to me the reason why on L.C. Smith ejector guns the forend iron is case colored. On L.C. Smith extractor guns, the forend iron is blued. Other than the answer, "this is how they did it", can someone explain to me if there is an actual reason?
Is it that the extra cost of having ejectors also inclued the cost of having the forend iron case colored? The lower cost extractors got a simple blue job? Just curious...
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Jason,
It's possible that the additional mechanism in the forend put additional pounding/wear on it. Casehardening would not be done simply for the color.
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I was told by an old timer it was done to keep flexing down. The case hardening was done to make the metal less prone to flexing. The wood on most ejector guns gets very thin in areas and if the for iron flexes it tends to crack the wood easily. I took this with a grain of salt, being part Scott, I figure it was just ten cents cheaper to blue than it was to color. Lowest cost gun gets the lowest cost option.
One of the problems that Remington 3200's had was weak for iron metal. The metal on the fore end was so thin that it would flex and the stock would crack. They replaced thousands of fore ends due to cracks.
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Jon,
Flexing of metal, or more specifically, the resistance to flex, is quantified in terms of modulus of elasticity. Steels, all of them, have the same modulus and hardening will have no effect on their resistance to flex. Hardening will only raise the point at which the "flex" permanently deforms the metal.
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