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Old August 15, 2013, 11:29 PM   #19
Dixie Gunsmithing
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Anyway, I have mentioned this a couple of times on these sites and been told that it couldn't happen, it is all a lie, there is no such thing as a brittle receiver, it was some kind of conspiracy by Hatcher, and that I am nuts, an idiot, or a plain liar.
I can think of all kinds of reasons for it to have happened, the same as you, I imagine. Anywhere from the wrong chemistry in the steel, to too much hydrogen being present when the melt was made, and even being hardened and not tempered afterwards, or not tempered to the correct hardness (tempered but too hard). It's just like making a leaf spring for a double, and hoping you got the tempering right, so it wont snap in two with a vise test.
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