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It is slower to machine, more expensive and can be difficult to weld but your right it's not that bad to machine if you want light weight and stronger than Aluminum.
Inconel is hard on tooling.
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It is slower to machine, more expensive and can be difficult to weld but your right it's not that bad to machine if you want light weight and stronger than Aluminum.
Inconel is hard on tooling.
Yeah, welding it if the weld requires good integrity is a process, HAZ has to be fully shielded with inert gas, which means either a flooded welding chamber or blasting huge quantities of argon, helium, etc.
I'd certainly rather machine 7050, 7075, 2219, 2024 Al, 316 & 416 SS and other materials that cut well, take a lot of heat with them and don't stick to tooling. Which is why we use those easier materials a lot in prototyping, fixtures and other applications where we don't need the mecahnical properties of the difficult materials. But suppressors, especially rifle cans, are one area where those properties are important, as well as having a pretty good profit margin to begin with, and a consumer market who will readily absorb the increased cost of more exotic materials to reap the benefits.
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I say get out there and shoot, and just tell us what you think!
Fancy meters are nice for comparison purposes, but can't accurately describe important things like tone. I like to hear people's firsthand experiences and opinions on suppressor performance, with or without a meter.
Yep. dB figures are more marketing tool than anything, since it's difficult to quantify other acoustic components in a way which very many people would actually understand (most don't even really grasp the logarithmic scale for measuring Bels), and since videos don't do a very good job of accurately representing sound intensity at very low or very high levels.
I would rather be able to get the opinions of a couple dozen people on one can vs. another, but there's always going to be environmental and subjective components to that, so dB is really the best we have for a comparison tool. That said, I think it's much more useful to meter at the shooter's ear than 1m perpendicular to the muzzle.