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Mills Morrison 01-04-2015 07:50 PM

DeCarbonized barrels
 
Does anyone have photos of what DeCarbonized barrels look like in original condition? Just curious. Does anyone do refinishing work on DeCarbonized barrels?

charlie cleveland 01-04-2015 08:39 PM

i dont have a gun with those kind of barrels but i know they look like the plain steel barrels parker used..they pretty much look like fluid steel barrels except more of a black finish than blue...charlie

Scott Fox 01-05-2015 10:01 AM

4 Attachment(s)
Mills, These are from #1416 a Parker Back Action gun.

George Lang 01-05-2015 12:37 PM

De carbed barrels on my Remingtons look no different than Vulcan steel but trend more towards black or real deep blue color. Hard to really tell on 140 + year old finish.

Drew Hause 01-05-2015 05:16 PM

Thank you Scott, and I added one of your images here with an attribution
http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/19406549

And BTW; based on Dave's composition analysis, "Parker Steel" may well be Decarbonized/Parker Plain Steel
http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthr...t=12593&page=4

Dean Romig 01-05-2015 05:28 PM

Wasn't Decarbonized Steel also referred to as ordinance steel and wasn't it considered to be the best quality steel suitable for rifle, gun, and cannon barrels at the time?

Jack Kuzepski 01-05-2015 05:48 PM

Dean,

I don't think so. I had a Remington 10 ga hammer gun grade 1 with decarbonized barrels. The barrels had some small dents and I sold the gun when I found out how strong decarbonized steel is; the reccomendation was not to shoot it with black powder or low pressure loads but to find one that had twist or Damascus barrels. Ordinance steel is a different composition and VERY much stronger. I saw something about how strong ordinance steel is in Remington Doubles by Charles Semmer.

Jack Kuzepski

Mills Morrison 01-05-2015 05:49 PM

I have heard decarbonized steel is the weakest of the steels used for Parker barrels. I have one Parker with decarbonized barrels and I just have it as a collector's piece.

Drew Hause 01-05-2015 05:50 PM

No. "Remington Ordnance Steel" was introduced in 1897 for the 1894 Hammerless Double and had a reported tensile strength of 110,000 psi.
"Remington Steel" used on the Model 1900 was likely similar to Winchester and Marlin "Rolled (Bessemer) Steel", with a tensile strength of 66,000 - 70,000 psi.
Bessemer/Decarbonized steel tensile strength is about 63,000 psi, similar to AISI 1018 Low Carbon (Mild) Steel.

I tried to use the 'Search' function for previous discussions regarding Decarbonized Steel strength, but this is all I found
http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthr...d+steel&page=3

For comparison, the average tensile strength in my study for crolle Damascus was 54,500 psi; less than that reported for Bessemer.

To be clear, Bessemer is NOT the same as Charles Parker Makers "Gun Iron" barrels which were made from surplus Cast Steel musket barrels.

Drew Hause 01-05-2015 06:17 PM

BTW: The Remington 1889 hammer gun No. 1 had decarbonized steel and was "Guaranteed For Nitro Powders"

http://pic20.picturetrail.com:80/VOL.../409493899.jpg


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