custom dm4/5 milling thread?

[nevets11_2003]

Awhile back there was a thread where someone had milled a dm5.
It was milled down to the vary least, looked like two stacked tubes.
It was annod (I think) orange to black
what happend to it, and is this still a service

[CKY_Alliance]

It was done by A+ annno check out their site..they do it for like 500 or something

http://www.aplusanodizing.com/

[nevets11_2003]

thanks

[Cow hunter]

that must decrease the structural integrity greatly though, have any of them ever broken?

[magman007]

how would it decrease structural integrety, im sure its milled down to still obtain integrety and function. does a ULE body decrease integrity? exile or pariah for that matter? abomb milling on a timmy, or other rediculously light milling? Sure if you drop a 2 ton weight on it, its going to be crushed, but the same goes for every marker.

[Cow hunter]

how would it decrease structural integrety, im sure its milled down to still obtain integrety and function. does a ULE body decrease integrity? exile or pariah for that matter? abomb milling on a timmy, or other rediculously light milling? Sure if you drop a 2 ton weight on it, its going to be crushed, but the same goes for every marker.

what i meant was, that when they mill some of these markers (maybe not this one, i dont know for sure) the thickest metal on the thing is almost nothing, wouldnt at some point it become TOO thin, thus making it unstable?

[onedude36]

Somone post the bent shocker frame as an example.

[magman007]

Somone post the bent shocker frame as an example.

the bent shocker frame was not weakened due to milling, it was weakened due to a different softer grade of aluminum

dye only uses the highest grade aluminum for the application

[sisco87]

Never had seen that milled dm5. it's way nice.

[slade]

decorative milling, (as the name would imply) if you think about it is completely impractical. it has some areas that are thin where the metal is milled down, and others that have a lot of extra metal. this milling smooths everything down and really streamlines the marker to what is essential, and actually more than that. if you think about it, what pressures do the marker hold? 300 psi max? the wall thickness should be fine for 3000 psi, the bolt would blow far before that. and no one is going to do anything to their high end marker that would put stress directly on the body, it will not bend or dent. the frame at least somewhat makes sense, but the body itself?

[onedude36]

the bent shocker frame was not weakened due to milling, it was weakened due to a different softer grade of aluminum

dye only uses the highest grade aluminum for the application

It was meant as an example of a gun that lacked structural integrity, not implying the dm5 was one of them.

/Owns Shocktech dm5
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