Yet Another "Half-baked" Concept

[Lomarandil]

If that comes out the nice bronzish color some of the blacks have been.. ooh baby..

Lo

[Zone Drifter]

Well, After an hour in the oven i looked at the parts and noticed not a single hint of discoloration. The x valve, ule body and intelliframe all stayed black. I decided to give it a rest and take the parts out. One good thing though, is that baking my parts sure cleaned them up real nice! XD

[trevorjk]

Well, After an hour in the oven i looked at the parts and noticed not a single hint of discoloration. The x valve, ule body and intelliframe all stayed black. I decided to give it a rest and take the parts out. One good thing though, is that baking my parts sure cleaned them up real nice! XD

can we tell our wives/girlfriends that we now now how to cook?

[Rudz]

Well, After an hour in the oven i looked at the parts and noticed not a single hint of discoloration. The x valve, ule body and intelliframe all stayed black. I decided to give it a rest and take the parts out. One good thing though, is that baking my parts sure cleaned them up real nice! XD

so basically that this does not work for agd products, because...quality? lol

[ProblemKinder]

the pieces that hold back pressure dont have to be very thick at all, and if they do get weakened it wont have a catastrophic failure. a friend tried to get some cocker bodies machined from scratch that were very light and milled, the bodies came out to thin in some places and they got small tiny leaks in them nothing very dangerous.

this process if anything might make the reservoirs be stronger since by lowering the temper of the metal they can move more before breaking

-matt

i agree, it may actually make the material slightly more ductile, reducing the chances of any kind of brittle fracture. not that the chances of brittle fracture are any higher than like one in a million. but whatever. i think it's safe.

then again, i could be wrong.

[LegumeOfTerror]

im willing to bet some kid was trying to melt loc-tite in some threading and ended up with this. pretty neat though.

[Warwitch]

Well, After an hour in the oven i looked at the parts and noticed not a single hint of discoloration. The x valve, ule body and intelliframe all stayed black. I decided to give it a rest and take the parts out. One good thing though, is that baking my parts sure cleaned them up real nice! XD

Im guessing that better alum and better ano will require longer baking times. I base this theory on absolutely nothing.

[House of Daggers]

I'll throw in my green Spyder some time and see how that comes out. And if it looks like crap, its just a Spyder.

I can only think of one thing going wrong with the barrels. It may mess with how smooth the bore is.

[Zone Drifter]

Im guessing that better alum and better ano will require longer baking times. I base this theory on absolutely nothing.

True story there. I don't think i'll bother with my mag stuff anymore though. I would much rather pay to get the ano and have a nice smooth finish. Baking them tends to dry out the finish, making it less smooth. (duh)

so basically that this does not work for agd products, because...quality? lol

EXACTLY what I thought when I took them out of the oven.

I have a black bushmaster coming in the mail that I won cheap off ebay, so I might throw that in and see what happens. I mean, if AGD stuff doesnt bake well, then I'm not going to even try. Quality counts.

[luke]

so basically that this does not work for agd products, because...quality? lol

Whos to say that all grades of aluminum react the same after they are heated...

[jade_monkey07]

the only notable diffirence with my stock tac barrel was in the threads it turned a dark redish but that was after 3 hours

Whos to say that all grades of aluminum react the same after they are heated...

[snoopay700]

Im guessing that better alum and better ano will require longer baking times. I base this theory on absolutely nothing.

Those are always the best theories, like my theory that it didn't change because of the use of babie blood in AGD products (why do you think the red x-valves are harder to find, those have EXTRA blood).

Honestly though, i don't see why anyone would do this with something they paid a lot of money for, like that ego in the pbnation thread.

[SkinnyHare]

i poked through that entire thread and only found a handful that looked good. im not about to turn one of my classic RTs into a burnt offering to the paintball gods. however, i did find this little gem on page 2.

[RRfireblade]

Hmm , makes all your new stuff look old and worn out. Cool.

I'd have to say it's going to weaken the metal significantly , especially if allowed to cool 'slowly' back to room temperature.

I'm basing this on the fact that all types of tempering involves the opposite process. Also , Cryo treating has shown to also have significant effects of strengthening metal , particularly Alu. Again , precisely the oppose of baking.

Seems like it should kill the ALU quite nicely.

IMO.

[BAZOOKA_Boy]

that and the fact that it removes any colorfastness to the dyes, so as soon as you play all summer with one of your guns, it may fade from brown to pee green to clear eventually, very bad idea, aside from the fact that you are harming the actual gun itself.