Housefire Vs. Firearms... Anything Salvageable?

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Out of all the guns we could recover out of the remains I have an M-305 that may be salvageable with some work. First off it needs to be cleaned up, it covered in soot and carbon from the plastic bits in the safe melting. Beyond a simple refinish I figure the springs will definitely need to be swapped and maybe a whole new trigger group and bolt internals. Is it even worth it? The fire in the safe was hot enough to vaporize the aluminum receivers of some of the other guns. Is it beyond any repair? This is a matter of sentiment so I am more than willing to spend a good chunk of money to get it up and running again. I'd spent a lot of time and money swapping parts and getting it tuned and never even got to fire the damn thing!



 
I'm truly sorry for your loss!

Considering that the melting point of aluminium is approx. 700*C, is there any concern with damaging the steel used in the receiver, barrel, etc. of your rifle? I was thinking along the lines of how knives are heated and cooled to produce desired physical properties, how certain welds are heated pre and post welding to remove internal stresses, etc. etc. etc...
I'm by no means a blacksmith, or metallurgy expert, this was just a thought...
 
The heat it was exposed to is exactly my concern. I know guns are designed to take a lot of heat but this is far beyond anything you would experience through simply firing the gun.
 
To give you an idea of the intensity here is what's left of an AR-15. The aluminum was completely vaporized. My DAR-22 with its thicker receiver was half melted.



 
B. I am so sorry for your home I couldn't imagine having to go through that I wish you the best of luck .
As far as the guns go if the aluminium was hot enough to melt it would also be hot enough to completely anneal any tempered steel parts which would make shooting any of them at risk of blowing up.
 
That is truly awful, I am very sorry to hear and see this, firearms and such aside, I hope no one was hurt. As far as the m14 goes, I cant be too sure, but I would maybe have it really checked out by a gunsmith or a metal expert. that kind of heat may have been too intense and could have stressed the level beyond its designed to and may be unsafe, however if it cleans up nice enough maybe reparked and such you could always get a replacement stock and just have it as deactivated gun.
 
You are all agreeing with my initial thought, maybe in the future I'll clean it up and hang it on the wall but I won't be trying to get it back out shooting. As far as insurance etc. this happened back in April so my fiancée and I are pretty well back on our feet. I do appreciate the kind words though!
 
First off I'm very sorry for the loss of your home. As far as saving the gun, It seems the heat was pretty intense, and most likely affected the heat treatment of the gun. Even if you restored it to look good once again I'd be leary of ever shooting it.
 
Could you get it working? Yes.
Do you want the only thing keeping 50 000psi from blinding you to be a salvaged piece of annealed steel? No
Compared to injuries guns are cheap, and hopefully you can spend the insurance companies money.
 
I have heard / read that if the firearms get so hot as to burn a wood stock the firearm is junk

you could possibe save some of the non pressure parts, Sights/ flash hinder/ trigger group frame

but any of the heat treated / machined precession parts are junk (barrel, op rod, receiver, trigger group parts -->= junk)

have the insurance write it off and replace it all of it it is not worth the risk
 
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