Titanic Steel Barrels

[Hixie]

I don't have a Parker with Titanic steel barrels.....yet. Working on it.

Vulcan was a planet in the Star Trek universe inhabited by pointy-eared green people who prided themselves on their use of logic, referred to as Vulcans. Mr. Spock was the most famous Vulcan character of the series. "Live long and Prosper."

[Drew Hause]

Thanks to Dave Suponski, and published in the Summer 2014 Parker Pages, we know Titanic, post-WWI Vulcan, and Trojan steel were essentially the same; AISI 1030 and 1035 Medium Carbon steels. Titanic did have low levels of both nickel and chromium compared to the others, but it would not be an “alloy steel”. Tensile strength testing was not performed on Dave's samples for comparison.
Pre-WWI Vulcan was AISI 1015. Many pre-WWI U.S. maker's tubes were AISI 1020.

[B. Dudley]

Originally Posted by Harry Gietler

My A-1 Special Trojan has Titanic Steel Barrels !

Harry

Just because someone marked them that way when they gussied the gun up, does not make it so. It is like sticking a dorsal fin on your back and calling yourself a dolphin.

[Bill Murphy]

And an A-1 Special with a set of Vulcan barrels is still a lowly A-1 Special. The 32" 20 gauge Vulcan Steel barrels on my GHE 16 were installed in Meriden on that lowly A-1 Special. My 16 is still a lowly GHE.