FourOh-LLC on Nostr: PEKK would not survive the firing of a 22LR. The pressure would tear it apart. Even ...
PEKK would not survive the firing of a 22LR. The pressure would tear it apart. Even when it did not, the slug would not spin-up it would melt any "rifling" so what you get is a smooth bore musket at best.
If this was not the case you could use aluminum or other metals, instead of carbon steel. I have a Taurus 38 special rated for P+, standard police issue from the 70s, one of the few specifically designed to chamber the P+ rounds. Its called "blued steel" because of the heat treatment to harden the specialty alloy.
During the siege of Louisbourg during the French and Indian War the defenders of the fortress lost nearly all their cannons and mortars failing due to fracturing - and that was only black powder. We are talking about 15k PSI for black powder versus 65k PSI for todays gunpowder.
I know people want to believe plastic guns are possible, but the fact is that they are not. The barrel, the firing pin must me iron-based metal.
If this was not the case you could use aluminum or other metals, instead of carbon steel. I have a Taurus 38 special rated for P+, standard police issue from the 70s, one of the few specifically designed to chamber the P+ rounds. Its called "blued steel" because of the heat treatment to harden the specialty alloy.
During the siege of Louisbourg during the French and Indian War the defenders of the fortress lost nearly all their cannons and mortars failing due to fracturing - and that was only black powder. We are talking about 15k PSI for black powder versus 65k PSI for todays gunpowder.
I know people want to believe plastic guns are possible, but the fact is that they are not. The barrel, the firing pin must me iron-based metal.