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Posted: 11/27/2009 12:17:59 AM EDT
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I searched this and found 2 threads and only a few responses and read an article by what seemed like a guy pushing his product.
Do any of you have any real experience with it yet? Spikes has an upper with a melonite coated barrel, same price as the non-coated one. Does sound good and for the same price...but does it really do anything? |
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I have used crankshafts that have had the journals melonited. It is a harder coating that offers more lubricity than the chrome nitride for crankshaft journals.
I had a bolt carrier assembly done in it and have been very pleased with it. Melonite coatings also refereed to as nitro-carburizing has been used on machine tools and aircraft parts for many years. |
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And for anyone that was wondering, it isn't a coating, but an infusion of nitrogen bound to any surface molecules of steel that atmospheric oxygen could likewise reach. There are no tolerance changes to the item melonited. Since the nitrogen is bound to the steel, nothing else can.
I am amazed that they can offer a melonited barrel with no upcharge. |
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Ask Tom in the industry forum... http://www.ar15.com/forums/forum.html?b=2&f=282 |
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