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Reising Receiver Steel


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H&R's manufacturing drawings are lost to history. From Frank Iannamico's book know that the receivers were machined from bar stock rather than tube. Given the machining involved, the fact that the studs are silver-soldered to the receiver and the induction hardening of the bolt locking notch, I'd bet on a hot-rolled medium carbon alloy steel but that's purely an educated guess

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They were induction hardened

 

Thanks! We learned about hydrogen embrittlement in a metal working class I'm auditing at the local community college. I was just wondering what, if anything, was done to mitigate the effects of hydrogen embrittlement on the locking shoulder when these were parkerized back in the 1940s. I see a lot of Reisings on the market that appear to be recently parkerized, and I wonder if the possibility exists for issues to occur as a result of the locking shoulder material becoming brittle.

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