I'm meeting with a metallurgical engineer at METL Tuesday morning and have 3 specific questions related to Dewey Vicknair's comments
1. Do you agree the dark divot in the middle represents the failure initiation point, and can we now determine if there was a flaw there?
2. Do you agree the braze joint failed?
3. Do you agree the breech end barrel wall metal appears to have been over-heated when brazed?
Hopefully a macroscopic examination can help answer those questions, and if so I'll post images.
Any other important questions, recognizing that I am paying for the consultation time?
re: the issue of the blow-up shell being a reload. The shooter said he was using factory shells, but was saving the empties to reload.
I have 7 empty shells and 8 unused shells all with the same primer, and 1 blow-up shell with a different primer.
I've contacted him for more information but he has not responded.
