CathyInBlue
Grandmaster
Okay, so I'm a sci-fi nut, a physicist by training, and so I'm always on the look out for new whiz bang technologies that could be easily repurposed, or otherwise applied to purposes other than those the inventor/discoverer had in mind. For instance, a group discovered that if you cryogenicly anneal metal machine parts (i.e., chill them down to liquid nitrogen temps and then slowly return them to room temp), they have greatly increased durability. They like to give away disposable razors that they've treated this way, and the razors never get dull. When I started thinking about home CNC milling for the purpose of, among a thousand other things, making a handful of ARs for personal use, I immediately started thinking that I would want to subject all of my ARs' parts to this process.
Now, I've discovered another 21st century technology and am wondering what INGO thinks of it for firearm applications.
Next Time Your Mom Says Don't Go Out in The Rain, Spray Yourself With This : Krulwich Wonders... : NPR
It's a nanoscale compound that makes the surface it's adhered to "superhydrophobic". WD-40's got nothing on the water displacement powers of this coating. One major issue is it also repels "refined oils". Would that matter if there was no possibility of water intrusion causing corrosion? It might not stand up too well under friction, though. Perhaps where a bolt or slide rubs back and forth over a receiver would become susceptible to water and corrosion quickly, but since the rest of the gun would have long since flung off any gun oil, there would be none to protect those abraded areas. I would also have a question of the nano coating's durability under high heat. No point in coating a barrel that'll reach 400° with the first mag dump if this coating will cook off at 300°.
If it survives abrasion and UV and everything else, I would love an entire wardrobe treated with this stuff.
Now, I've discovered another 21st century technology and am wondering what INGO thinks of it for firearm applications.
Next Time Your Mom Says Don't Go Out in The Rain, Spray Yourself With This : Krulwich Wonders... : NPR
It's a nanoscale compound that makes the surface it's adhered to "superhydrophobic". WD-40's got nothing on the water displacement powers of this coating. One major issue is it also repels "refined oils". Would that matter if there was no possibility of water intrusion causing corrosion? It might not stand up too well under friction, though. Perhaps where a bolt or slide rubs back and forth over a receiver would become susceptible to water and corrosion quickly, but since the rest of the gun would have long since flung off any gun oil, there would be none to protect those abraded areas. I would also have a question of the nano coating's durability under high heat. No point in coating a barrel that'll reach 400° with the first mag dump if this coating will cook off at 300°.
If it survives abrasion and UV and everything else, I would love an entire wardrobe treated with this stuff.
