>>64494498
Hardened, polished, tempered.
Heat 'em up to a bright red, quench in oil, handle carefully (glass brittle), polish, temper in a lead bath (it'll heat up to the required temp and they'll float on top).
>>64494510
were all of the parts cast from spring steel then or just the actual springs? I wonder if the grain structure from being cast will affect how well they function.
>>64494427
Looks like a TRS set of lock castings. I'd love to see how they do their lockbuilding efficiently enough to charge what they do >>64494498
The investment cast steel they use can be heat treated, it's usally a 10xx on the higher end.
>>64496796
Some old frontier guns had very long jaws to let you carry longer flints and chip them down over time, if you wrap it in leather it's easy to move the flints up the cock as you have to refresh it.
>>64494498
You might be surprised how common cast springs are, it's one of the normal ways to make springs, even coil springs are often made by casting. Odds are decent you've been in a vehicle with cast springs, whether they were the torsion springs in the suspension of an older car or truck, or the huge cast coils used for trains.
>>64499886
damn if casting is good enough for springs that will go through thousands of compression cycles why do people sperg out about pistol frames?
>>64500039
Good casting is difficult, if you don't have the infrastructure in place and design around the process it's not even worth it to try to make a gun that's cast and not shit. Cheap casting though, cheap casting is cheap, and very shit. Nobody trusts cast guns that aren't from a company that makes trustworthy cast guns, and that is a rare thing.
