Monac
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I was reading this article:
http://www.pyramydair.com/blog/2014/11/the-cody-thunderbird-revolver-the-face-of-innovation/
about an inexpensive 22 revolver call the Cody Thunderbird, which was produced for a short time in the late 1950's. This paragraph kind of stopped me:
"But the final flaw is the most serious, because it affected every gun that left the factory. The gun’s frame is aluminum and the action parts are steel, which set up electrolysis in each and every gun! Without fail, all the parts were welded together over time. Every gun will have this problem. The only solution is disassembly, cleaning and protection with something like Ballistol."
There are a lot of aluminum alloy framed revolvers and semi-autos out there, and most of them have steel action parts, but I have never heard of this. Is it a real problem?
I have forgotten WAY too much about basic science to say whether aluminum and steel would react together to create electricity and corrode each other. Also, just to nitpick, I would have thought the proper term was galvanic reaction, and not electrolysis.
http://www.pyramydair.com/blog/2014/11/the-cody-thunderbird-revolver-the-face-of-innovation/
about an inexpensive 22 revolver call the Cody Thunderbird, which was produced for a short time in the late 1950's. This paragraph kind of stopped me:
"But the final flaw is the most serious, because it affected every gun that left the factory. The gun’s frame is aluminum and the action parts are steel, which set up electrolysis in each and every gun! Without fail, all the parts were welded together over time. Every gun will have this problem. The only solution is disassembly, cleaning and protection with something like Ballistol."
There are a lot of aluminum alloy framed revolvers and semi-autos out there, and most of them have steel action parts, but I have never heard of this. Is it a real problem?
I have forgotten WAY too much about basic science to say whether aluminum and steel would react together to create electricity and corrode each other. Also, just to nitpick, I would have thought the proper term was galvanic reaction, and not electrolysis.