02-22-2022, 10:23 AM
BR,
It sounds like what you are doing with case prep is best-practise. But as we know cases don't last forever. 25 hammer blows of 50K lbs is going to harden the case and stress it along fault lines.. Annealing is only done to the top part of the case so that won't help longevity. Sounds like the splits are occurring at the junction of the web and the case. Just normal ageing.
It sounds like what you are doing with case prep is best-practise. But as we know cases don't last forever. 25 hammer blows of 50K lbs is going to harden the case and stress it along fault lines.. Annealing is only done to the top part of the case so that won't help longevity. Sounds like the splits are occurring at the junction of the web and the case. Just normal ageing.