Why don't they make Glocks out of a light aluminum alloy?
>>28030782
Because you touch yourself at night.
>>28030782
Then it wouldn't be a glocknade, it'd be a glipebomb
What's wrong with polymer.
>>28030828
It shatters and melts
Poor understanding of metallurgy I guess. People forget that the .357 loads they used in the 80s were generally weaker than a modern 9mm; and while weapons like the W2000 and the psg1 were the most accuracy rifles in the world they are really not that impressive today because of modern understanding of barrel harmonics can produce better barrels for a fraction of the price. We have made massive strides forward in the last 30 years, so Glocks were probably plastic because they didn't know how to make "light aluminum alloys", at least not ones that could be as light as plastic while being cost effective and handling the stresses. These days you can do a 3d model and test for it before even making gun, but in the 80s you had to wing it. Thats just a guess though.
>>28030886
...... what? Any firearm that had a terminal failure I would hope would spray softer plastic than more than lethally hard metals.
Literally what.
>>28030820
>glipebomb
>>28030820
FUCKIN' KEK
>>28030892
Should have inb4'd Elmer Keith
>>28030913
polymer is way more likely to break and melt and shatter than steel or aluminum
>>28031065
... yeah no shit. But if it's a firearm you would hope that wouldnt happen in the first place.
And please I would like to see a glock that's melted from being fired.
The shit you're talking about is irrelevant. Polymer is fine.
>>28031065
>he fell for the meme
>let's fix something that isn't broken
I really REALLY love this meme, you guys. I really do...
>>28031083
my friend(lets just call him dave) and i go to the range fairly regularly. dave tells me he bought a new gun, he got a glock 40. we shoot for about 30 minutes. he's at the lane next to me and then all i hear is a gunshot and then him screaming. i look over and his gun fuckin glocknaded in his hand. tore him to shreds and lodged a piece of plastic in his shoulder. i've been shooting my 1911 for 33 years with no problems. he shot his glock for a day and it blew the fuck up
>>28031083
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub4OswUhLwo
Works great but it literally eats itself to death. Kinda cool that its shooting pieces of itself as it dies.
Polymers are great but they will melt and not hold tolerance long before anything happens to a metal product.
>>28031135
>Not posting the whole thing
>>28031220
so if it had been a metal gun would... would you even have told that story?
Always inspect your casings when shooting a new arm.
>>28030782
The reason that they make guns out of plastic these days is because they can, and it makes the most sense. The polymer lowers on modern pistol are injection molded. This process allows hundreds of thousands of identical parts to be cast from the same mold in a relatively short amount of time, with an absurdly low individual part cost, and almost zero waste. Making parts out of metal, be it trough casting, forging, or machining from billet, takes much mote time and energy, and produces more waste, all things that needlessly drive up cost. The only parts of a gun that are subject to any real stress are the barrel and the slide. The trigger group, and the parts that the slide rides on are only made of metal because it has better surface finish and wear characteristics than the plastic the lower is made of. The reason that Glocks and .40 cal Shields explode is not because they are made of plastic, but because the metal parts that are meant to contain the pressure failed.
>>28031226
If your only argument against polymer is that it can't handle firing approx. 40 high capacity magazines in under ten minutes, then polymer must be pretty good.
>Light aluminum alloy
Aluminum alloys are pretty much all the same density.
Do you mean a strong aluminum alloy (so you can use less material for a lighter part)? In that case it's because then it would show up on airport X-ray machines.
>>28031065
And yet the durability of polymer is a complete non issue while being cheaper, proven and used in increasing volume.
If it upsets that much just buy a CCF race frame. You can find Titanium and polymer BHP frames too but nobody gives a shit because steel was fine
Most of the space in pistols doesn't take significant stress, it's their to fill space and be gripped. Rifles have much larger bearing surface and usually need enclosed receivers to keep out dirt and mount optics.There are plastic rifle receivers but they usually end up being the same/similar weight because they need so much polymer.
Pistol don't need all that support or material. The frame of a pistol is not much more than a glorified handle / trigger-mag holder. In a pistol the slide keeps the dirt out. Making the frame from aluminum doesn't improve the gun and adds weight.
>>28030892
>so Glocks were probably plastic because they didn't know how to make "light aluminum alloys", at least not ones that could be as light as plastic while being cost effective and handling the stresses
It's called regular-ass 7075. It's not going to help when the majority of the frame doesn't need strength. You could skeletonize it but then you'd have holes everywhere
>>28034328
>You could skeletonize it but then you'd have holes everywhere
And if you don't want the holes you could always fill them in.
>>28030782
>He wants Glocks to be more expensive
>>28033256
>In that case it's because then it would show up on airport X-ray machines.
Well memed
>>28034475
Then you have weight back on ....
>>28030782
Because Gaston Glock wasn't a firearms designer, he was a plastics specialist. He designed his pistol based on what he knew about plastics first, and guns second. Somehow, it worked.
>>28030828
>insert glocknade may may
You realize that this was made up right?
>>28030820
MY SIDES ARE FUCKING GONE
>>28034628
so then skeletonize it, stop being a faggot.
>>28037605
Are you even reading? The whole post was to say "don't use aluminum"
Aluminum - heavier
Skeletonized aluminum - full of holes
Polymer - lighter, no holes
>>28030782
Why would they?
