Quoted: Many years ago, when I asked Colt engineers this question, they stated that it was to use existing fixturing that holds the barrel when it was chrome plated.
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That doesn't stand up to analysis.
I will be making barrels at the rate of a thousand a day, and so I have a thousand chroming fixtures, and I expect to make 1-2 million barrels.
Does it make more sense to add an extra machining step to each of ONE MILLION barrels;
Or to remake / rework one thousand fixtures, and leave the barrels alone?
When you have that kind of volume, you can afford to do it right.