Will the frame of a Heritage Rough Rider, i.e. "pot metal", melt if placed in a fire?? Friend says a friend did this "once", sounds plausible, just curious.
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ZAMAK is the zinc alloy that a lot of cheap guns are made from --at least the receivers.
ZAMAK has a pretty low melting point of about 800°F
Carbon steel, on the other hand, has a melting point somewhere between 2000 and 2700°F depending on the grade of steel.
A house fire, or even a campfire, can have hot spots in it where the temperature reaches 1600° -- so that's more than enough to melt the ZAMAC alloy but not enough to melt steel.
ZAMAK has a pretty low melting point of about 800°F
Carbon steel, on the other hand, has a melting point somewhere between 2000 and 2700°F depending on the grade of steel.
A house fire, or even a campfire, can have hot spots in it where the temperature reaches 1600° -- so that's more than enough to melt the ZAMAC alloy but not enough to melt steel.
Do it and post the results...
Do it for science!
this was dumb QUESTION, not dumb ACTION. I ain't roasting my rough rider.
What about jet fuel?
Only one way to find out
softening steel is different from melting it.
I'm sure that you could make a steel gun go "ka-boom" if you fired it when the gun
was something like "red hot" (maybe 1000 degrees),
way below the melting point but hot enough to weaken it.
I'm sure that you could make a steel gun go "ka-boom" if you fired it when the gun
was something like "red hot" (maybe 1000 degrees),
way below the melting point but hot enough to weaken it.
