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Good morning all. I'm just making this quick post in the hope that some of the members here with more material knowledge than I have can weigh in on my form 1 design before I possibly damage it by firing rounds through it that it might not be able to handle.
Some years ago I built my first form 1 suppressor and did my best to construct it in a manner that would allow for firing up to .308 Winchester through it (from a 16+" barrel).
The tube, end caps, and baffle spacers are titanium and the baffles are all stainless steel 60 degree cones. The overall length of the suppressor is 8", the tube diameter is 1.5" OD, and the blast chamber before the first baffle is 2.5" in length. The combined wall thickness (tube + spacers) is 0.19".
Here's a bad mock up of the interior of the suppressor (not to scale):
Since I made it, the highest pressure rounds I've fired through it have been supersonic .300 Blackout loads (from a 10.5" barrel), which it handled perfectly fine and even did a decent job of suppressing the sound. I'm probably just worrying too much, but are there any apparent concerns with the structural strength of a design like this when firing higher pressure rounds like 5.56 or .308 from a 16+" barrel?
Thanks in advance for any input!
Some years ago I built my first form 1 suppressor and did my best to construct it in a manner that would allow for firing up to .308 Winchester through it (from a 16+" barrel).
The tube, end caps, and baffle spacers are titanium and the baffles are all stainless steel 60 degree cones. The overall length of the suppressor is 8", the tube diameter is 1.5" OD, and the blast chamber before the first baffle is 2.5" in length. The combined wall thickness (tube + spacers) is 0.19".
Here's a bad mock up of the interior of the suppressor (not to scale):
Since I made it, the highest pressure rounds I've fired through it have been supersonic .300 Blackout loads (from a 10.5" barrel), which it handled perfectly fine and even did a decent job of suppressing the sound. I'm probably just worrying too much, but are there any apparent concerns with the structural strength of a design like this when firing higher pressure rounds like 5.56 or .308 from a 16+" barrel?
Thanks in advance for any input!
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