Cast vs Forged vs Billet

Don't worry, I don't design planes, I just manufacture plane and jet parts to the specs supplied on the prints and solid models.
I will end here as I am bored and am going to build some Romanian Ak's today.
:)
 
Dr.Lector said:
Oh, come on, man... you are getting aggressive here.
All I did was to ask a couple of innocent questions and
you started swinging that eutectic above your head
like you want to scare the peaceful by-standers or sumpin.
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Sorry, it was not my intention to get agressive. Apologies to anyone I offended

I tend to get verbal diarrhea when explaining things
 
TRG-42 said:
I wouldn't even want to figure out how multidirectional the loading on a AR platform would be.
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Picture is macroetch of aluminum billets that has gone through a 50% upset forge
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Good point. Predicting the loading on a connecting rod is going to be straightforward, hence forging is good for that application (as mentioned by a previous poster). While the primary loading on an AR - the recoil impulse - is predictable, all of the other usages complicate things. Even then, a forged AR has significant machining - such as breaching or EDMing the magwell - to add further complications.

On the second item - great pictures and supporting text.
 
OK.

So, you make a convincing case for billet and forging being a wash in the application under discussion. Is it therefore fair to say that bragging that your AR receiver is 100% Billet Machined Aluminum is marketing hogwash when every other AR receiver on the planet is forged, and therefore at least as good?
 
TRG-42 said:
Sorry, it was not my intention to get agressive. Apologies to anyone I offended

I tend to get verbal diarrhea when explaining things
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No, I am the one who is sorry because I didn't make it clear
that what I said about aggressivity was a joke
(I should have put smileys in my post or something).

However, you decided to ignore almost all questions you were asked.
Any special reason for that?
:)
 
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