ANOTHER CALL FOR BARREL SEGMENTS and then I'll let this thread rest.
Thanks to the graciousness of Dennis Potter I was able to tensile test a segment of "Krupp Essen" (maker and age unknown) and a segment of Remington 3200. I doubt if the Remington barrel was the cursed 1140 Manganese Sulfide Modified Carbon Steel because the tensile strength was 121,000 psi!
SO this summer I'll take both segments, and a couple more pattern welded segments, by METL for composition analysis (at $75 per test
). I would very much like some other pre-WWI new fangled Fluid Steel barrels IF you know the source; such as Stevens "High Pressure Compressed Forged Steel", Ithaca "Smokeless Powder Steel", or
especially Hunter Arms London, Crown, or Nitro Steel.Please email at revdoc2@cox.net if you have a chunk of barrel and thanks! The analysis only requires an about 2" square.
BTW: I have no knowledge of what 'Zircon' has done with the almost 40 barrel segments he received.
