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Are They Really Made of Stainless Steel?
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February 25, 2013 - 3:34 pm
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I was thinking the "stainless Steel" revolvers are really just nickel plated. Wouldn't a stainless steel barrel be too soft? What are the facts?

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They are stainless steel.  It is soft stainless and can be nicked and also repaired easily. There are nickel plated guns and they have a different look to them. 

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Uh, yeah, they're stainless. In a DW the barrel can be, and is, a different steel from the frame and shroud. This is true in standard manufacture revolvers as well, with a (different) steel barrel encased in a stainless shroud attached to a stainless frame. In addition, there are many stainless barrels in existence, for example:

"All Bar-Sto Pistol barrels are machined from solid 416 stainless steel bar stock which has been heat treated 39 to 43 RC and 180,000 PSI tensile strength. Barrels are machined, bored, and rifled completely in our own shop."

http://www.barsto.com/

And MANY more examples come up on a Google Search

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'Stainless steel' is a term for steel alloy with Chromium added, which gives its corrosion resistance. (I think at least 11%). There are many grades of stainless steel alloy along with  heat and hardening treatments used for different applications.

   I do not know exactly what stainless alloy Dan Wesson used for revolvers or particularly barrels, but they made Supermags with it so it musta been good stuff!

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DW "stainless" barrels are nickel plated steel, the rest of the gun is stainless.

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