Welcome back to Silencer on Saturday, sponsored by Yankee Hill Machine, creator of the new Victra-12-Shotgun Supressor. The Shot Show is over and this is a good opportunity to talk about what was new in the more global sense. We have published many articles and videos about the various new suppressors and their specifications, and we will not build them in detail. Rather, we will see the trends in the entire industry.
Small damper Saturday @ TFB:
Additive production
I had previously predicted that we would see more 3D-printed silencers this year, and this prediction was very precise. Almost every new Suppressor design was manufactured using the additive production. Although additive production did not completely replace all other construction methods, it was clear that the majority of the new designs are moving in this way.
However, these silencers are not produced with the type of 3D printers who have many hobbyists at home. Most of these printers either melt a filament and draw stacked layers of stacks or use liquid resin by hardening parts with UV light. The most common type of machine for silencer construction is the DLM (Direct Metal Laser Sintering). This technology takes a very fine metal powder and uses a laser to melt it in layers. The resulting part has no weaknesses such as welding seams, since the microscopic metal pieces are very even and melt into consistent layers that behave more like a single piece.
One of the advantages of printing through processing is the easy production of new design. In contrast to a CNC machine, for which careful planning and tool routing is required to create a design, printers need very little human participation to create a new design. Engineers can take a design, make an optimization and print out a new test element. Some of these versions will be improvements; Others won't. But the lightness of creating new designs leads to more experiments.
Silk absorbers with add -up manufacturing can use more complex internal constructions. For example, we take the Dead Air Sandman X. It uses a “trisklion” design for part of the Schalltross stack. It is a kind of helix that catches the gases differently than a conical sound wall. Another example can be found in the gas routing connections on the outside of the AAC Ranger 5 RBP, the unique sound holder structure within the BOE suppression cans and the “deliberately induced porosity” of the PTR Vent Spiritus and the Dillon rifle company .50 BMG -Silencer. Over time, we will probably see new and creative opportunities to apply this technology.
Haynes 282
An unexpected new trend is the use of Haynes 282. Steel and Titanium appear in all possible things outside the gun world, and most silencers are already familiar with Inconel. But Haynes 282 has been found a lot new and previously only found in one or two silencers like The Dead Air Lazarus 6. It is used in other industries to produce things such as high -pressure boilers and rocket engine nozzles.
I plan a complete silencer on Saturday about this material, but it is enough to say that it is extremely heat -resistant and the host pistol would probably melt before a suppressor is made of Haynes. Silk absorbers from AAC, radical firearms and Dead Air use all Haynes 282. All are made with add -on production.
Universal assembly
Silk absorbers are increasingly moving from proprietary assembly. Most of the new publications at Shot Show have hub assembly. The “Hybrid Universal Base” or hub holder use 1.375×24 thread in the rear part of the silencer. Most manufacturers contain hub threads in their designs, even if they also use a form of the proprietary rapid discount holder. This mount style can exist some disadvantages, since the manufacturer has no complete control over the assembly device and an muzzle device that was never tested with a silencer (and without a clear way to show the finger, since the manufacturer of the sound absorber and the mouth show).
Together with the countless new sound data with hub threads, Surefire had a new adapter offer. It attached to a silencer with the hub assembly and enables it to assemble on a weapon with a steady muzzle. This fast Annex hub bracket adds to the very long list of manufacturers who brought their products into the hub ball.
That's it for this issue of Summer Saturday. Be sure to take a look at all of our reporting from the Shot show on the entire website as well as the TFBTV and TFBTV show -time channels.
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