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I thought .45 long colt was a good round for this project, since it’s a lowpressure round, very low pressure compared to for example .454 casull.
My idea wasn’t to make the carbon fiber myself, but buying plates of carbon fiber instead of steel and cut it out to a frame. It doesn’t seem to be that easy afterall, in any case my goal with this project is to keep the weight down, I want to make a really leightweight gun, either a revolver or a deringer, and carbon fiber is the most leight weight strong material that came to my mind..
All revolvers share those same issues.There is still a lot of pressure trying to push the barrel cylinder apart when fired. The cylinder also is rotating on a pin that is not in line with the recoil force. Those are just a few problems that I saw immediately.
OK so lets play this game a bit longer. How about a design similar to the original colts where the cylinder pin took the stress and was embedded in a beefy matrix in the frame? Just freewheeling here. No top strap but also no swing-out cylinder for reloading.
All revolvers share those same issues.
Like I said, imo the key is the topstrap. If that's done right, the rest is pretty straightforward. Done wrong, it would be dangerous, since a failure of the topstrap would be pretty catastrophic.
The amazing thing to me about revolvers is that they are as accurate as they are- with all the moving parts, and the alignment and timing that has to be there for it all to work.
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