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Hollywood58
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Posted: October/05/2015 at 18:13 |
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supertool73
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I have mixed and matched several tumes without issue. I have alum rings and steel base on my precision rifle right now with no issues so far.
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cheaptrick
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Me too.
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bugsNbows
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Me three on the mixing. No issues to date ... as long as they are quality pieces.
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USMC2111
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Just mounted a Mark 4 with steel Badger rings on a Sadlak alloy mount no issues
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cheaptrick
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I read somewhere Vortex rings are made by Seekins. I've had all you mentioned, sans Ken Farrell and I'd go with with Seekins now.
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stork23raz
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The Vortex Precision rings are made by Seekins, so they are the same. Vortex Precision/Seekins or Badgers are top picks in my book
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Gunshow75
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When a material is heated or cooled, its dimension (length or width) changes by an amount that is proportional its original dimension and the change in temperature. Called Linear Thermal Expansion, it can be expressed mathematically by : dw = W x a x (Tinit - Tfinal) where dw is change in width, W is original width, a is the linear expansion coefficient in m/m deg C, and Tinit and Tfinal are the initial and final temperatures in deg C. m is meters. The linear expansion coefficients for steel and aluminum are 0.000012 and 0.000023, respectively. Lets suppose that you put a set of steel bases and aluminum rings on a rifle and that they are 0.75 inches wide when you install them at a temperature of -25 deg F (-31.6 deg C). Lets further suppose that you shoot the rig at a temperature of 110 deg F (43.4 deg C). With a change of 135 deg F (75 deg C), the steel base will be 0.750675 inches wide and the aluminum rings will be 0.751294 inches wide, or a difference of 0.000619 inches. Even assuming no elasticity in the ring clamp, I doubt that 6 ten thousandths of an inch would allow enough change to be seen. |
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