Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "So Many Ways to Fail at Making a Pistol" video.

  1. For the Mamba, the main problem was it's main feature. "all stainless steel". Stainless steel being subject to galling is the reason the Randall 1911 (1983) was marketed as the first reliable all-stainless-steel semiauto (not the first to be made, but the earlier attempts were special series and "Gucci pistols", not really destined to hard use). The designers of the Mamba (1976) passed to production without having solved the problem they should have first.
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  2. The Liberator was simply made for a use that didn't exist in real life. A French Partisan should have found a lone German soldier (already a mythological figure) so confident to let him approach at arm length to effectively use a single shot, smoothbore, handgun, then he should have stolen his weapon, to have a real gun. How many times that situation was supposed to happen IRL? An hatchet would have been better, at least it was quieter.
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  3. It's two metal surfaces (in this case slide and frame) wearing rapidly when sliding against each-other, because the crystal structure of one captures and "tear away" the surface crystals of the other. Stainless-on-stainless friction is particular subject to galling. It's the reason all-stainless-steel semiauto appeared so late on the market (the 1983 Randall 1911 had been marketed as the first really reliable all-stainless-steel semiauto pistol). In 1976, when the Mamba had been marketed, the problem had yet to be solved.
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  4. What about the Colt All American...
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  5. The Liberator was simply made for a use that didn't exist in real life. A French Partisan should have found a lone German soldier (already a mythological figure) so confident to let him approach at arm length to effectively use a single shot, smoothbore, handgun, then he should have stolen his weapon, to have a real gun. How many times that situation was supposed to happen IRL? An hatchet would have been better, at least it was quieter.
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  6. There's a similar gun in a SF novel I read years ago (On the Rim of the Mandala), it's called a "horto". The ray it generates can pierce almost anything, but is must be generated in both opposite directions.
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  7. To handle high pressure ammo, a top break frame should be so massive and heavy to preclude any serious sale.
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  8. The Liberator was simply made for a use that didn't exist in real life. A French Partisan should have found a lone German soldier (already a mythological figure) so confident to let him approach at arm length to effectively use a single shot, smoothbore, handgun, then the Partisan should have stolen his weapon, to have a real gun. How many times that situation was supposed to happen IRL? An hatchet would have been better, at least it was quieter.
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  9. The Liberator was simply made for a use that didn't exist in real life. A French Partisan should have found a lone German soldier (already a mythological figure) so confident to let him approach at arm length to effectively use a single shot, smoothbore, handgun, then the Partisan should have stolen his weapon, to have a real gun. How many times that situation was supposed to happen IRL? An hatchet would have been better, at least it was quieter.
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  10. Yeah. Considered how different was the Glock to the pistols that dominated the marked in the '80s (DA/SA wondernines) it's success seems to have come "against all odds". Arguably, had he been a small American manufacturer, he would have failed. The fact of having been Austrian. Already a supplier of the Austrian Army, even if not of handguns (so someone that could be trusted), and to have finally won the bid for the Austrian Army and Police service handgun, gave him the "depth of field" to face the civilian market with a solid base. Also the timing had been right, since that competition took place in the early '80s (before the US XM9 program) when even the best among the wondernines, introduced in the mid '70s, still had defects to fix.
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  11. That's exactly why reliable all stainless steel semiautos had not been made until the '80s.
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  12. There are stainless "superalloys" that makes for better blades than standard carbon steel. Stainelss is not too soft, and is as heavy as standard steel, (carbon and stainless steel frame and slides are made with the same dimensions). It's REAL problem for use in semiauto pistols was galling, since it's very prone to it. The problem had not been really solved since the '80s.
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  13. The Glock is simple. That's what Gaston Glock nailed, and made his success. Gun enthusiasts constantly underestimate how hard it is for a non gun enthusiast to learn how a gun works and make it work. Things like "that's the safety. It works only if the hammer is in this position, not in this other position. That's the half-cock...". And Armies and Security forces must teach those things to legions of non-gun-enthusiasts. Glock is "you pull the trigger, it goes bang, end of the story". That enormously reduced training time and expenses for agencies in respect to SAO and wondernines.
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  14.  @immikeurnot  Nothing on the Glock was "revolutionary". As said, it's success was due to the simplicity of operation.
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  15. The Liberator was simply made for a use that didn't exist in real life. A French Partisan should have found a lone German soldier (already a mythological figure) so confident to let him approach at arm length to effectively use a single shot, smoothbore, handgun, then he should have stolen his weapon, to have a real gun. How many times that situation was supposed to happen IRL? An hatchet would have been better, at least it was quieter.
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  16. For the Mamba, the main problem was it's main feature. "all stainless steel". Stainless steel being subject to galling is the reason the Randall 1911 (1983) was marketed as the first reliable all-stainless-steel semiauto (not the first to be made, but the earlier attempts were special series and "Gucci pistols", not really destined to hard use). The designers of the Mamba (1976) passed to production without having solved the problem they should have first.
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  17. The Liberator was simply made for a use that didn't exist in real life. A French Partisan should have found a lone German soldier (already a mythological figure) so confident to let him approach at arm length to effectively use a single shot, smoothbore, handgun, then he should have stolen his weapon, to have a real gun. How many times that situation was supposed to happen IRL? An hatchet would have been better, at least it was quieter.
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  18. If you make a pistol for you own enjoinment, you are successful when you have made it the way you intended. In a certain sense, it doesn't even need for it to really work. If you are a manufacturer, your gun is successful the moment it makes a profit AND doesn't tarnish your reputation.
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  19. I don't particularly like them, but the glock is a HUGELY successful pistol. Not only it sold a lot, but has created what's nowaday the most successful market segment for handguns (polymer-framed, striker-fired).
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  20. The Glock is simple. That's what Gaston Glock nailed, and made his success. Gun enthusiasts constantly underestimate how hard it is for a non gun enthusiast to learn how a gun works and make it work. Things like "that's the safety. It works only if the hammer is in this position, not in this other position. That's the half-cock...". And Armies and Security forces must teach those things to legions of non-gun-enthusiasts. Glock is "you pull the trigger, it goes bang, end of the story". That enormously reduced training time and expenses for agencies in respect to SAO and wondernines.
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