Re: Researching for MillenniumsEnd.com Essay

[Gurth <Gurth@xxxxxxxxx>]

According to Jeff Pawlowski, on Wed, 24 Apr 2002 the word on the street was...

> What I gathered from "Alloy-Forged" is that a super heated chunk of metal
> is pressed into a form/cast by hydraulic machinery, to form the shape,
> usually taking several slamming of the metal into the cast to make the
> final shape.  Is this correct?

I think so. AFAIK, forging is beating (or pushing) hot metal into shape, like 
a blacksmith does with horseshoes; the modern way is, of course, to use a 
machine to press it into shape in one go (or a couple of goes, if one would 
break it). I suppose "alloy-forged" means Colt uses some kind of alloy -- 
which is a metal made up of different metals; steel, for example, is an alloy 
of iron, carbon and other materials depending on the intended application -- 
and forges into the shape of the AR-15's receiver.

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