Why isn't anyone doing this?
- Thread starter Laufen
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Nor do I but calling it horribly toxic is a bit over the top and Internet drama. Yes it is lead acetate, but the acid is fucking food grade vinegar.
I bet the byproducts of cleaning your guns is every bit as toxic.
Wear gloves and don't drink it and you will be good.
I have looked pretty in-depth at dozens of coatins and surface treatments for baffles. The best ones are done by the PVD process, and there are very few companies who do it in the South East. Most of them are on the west coast. Any other film type coats won't survive the heat and abrasion.
For baffles to get done, they have to be an 07/02, or close enough and willing to let a responsible person come to their facility and babysit the parts while they get coated. I have found a shop willing to work with us, so that's something we are going to try in the future.
On the other hand, there's more to it than just stick on a coating. You have to look at the base material too. If the base metal is aluminum, it will still be pourous and soft. So stuff will still adhere and if you try too hard to clean it, you can gouge the material underneath the coating.
We use 6al4v titanium because it's naturally tough, and almost nothing chemically bonds to it. So if you ever want to clean your baffles like new, send them back to us and we will bead blast it to perfection.
I will say that the deposits on the baffles do help suppression, so long as it's not so much that it's reducing the volume significantly.
For baffles to get done, they have to be an 07/02, or close enough and willing to let a responsible person come to their facility and babysit the parts while they get coated. I have found a shop willing to work with us, so that's something we are going to try in the future.
On the other hand, there's more to it than just stick on a coating. You have to look at the base material too. If the base metal is aluminum, it will still be pourous and soft. So stuff will still adhere and if you try too hard to clean it, you can gouge the material underneath the coating.
We use 6al4v titanium because it's naturally tough, and almost nothing chemically bonds to it. So if you ever want to clean your baffles like new, send them back to us and we will bead blast it to perfection.
I will say that the deposits on the baffles do help suppression, so long as it's not so much that it's reducing the volume significantly.
Most coatings raise the cost of the suppressor. I am gonna experiment with a electroless nickel teflon coating on my .22 can. It will be the same coating i applied to @Cudruln a bolt for his AR9 build.
If HPA passes I'm buying a 3d printer and running polymer baffles in all my rimfire cans.
Makes sense I guess...well, not really but the NFA doesn't make any sense so I guess the laws that surround it shouldn't either.
Pretty much. If the rule doesn't make sense, that the standard for what you should expect with the NFA/ATF junk.