Different barrel materials

[Mr Big]

Which material do you prefer for barrels and why? My personal favourite is titanium, but that's because it's the most expensive.

Other views? what about ceramic, carbon fibre and polycarbonate?

 

[Buddha 3]

Damn, didn't expect you to be a 'bling' fan.

I just like the old stainless steel and aluminium, it's proven stuff. All the other stuff you mentioned is just fluff.

 

[Sinner]

I agree with Buddha on this one, although I have a general preference for Alu since you can anodize it to all the puurty colors we paintballers go all giddy about.

A clear polycarb barrel might have a slight interest factor from a techie geek point of view, but only for about 4 minutes and 32 seconds.

 

[manike]

Aluminium for weight and pretty colours (all mine are black )

Titanium for producing sparks and looking cool.

 

[Hotpoint]

Well they don't make them (yet) but Vanadium would be the ideal material being stronger and lighter than Titanium

Getting back to reality when i was playing Pump on CO2 I prefered a Ceramic Barrel in cold weather (I mean sub-zero) beause of the contraction problems with metal tubes

 

[manike]

I want a barrel made from unobtainium...

Now THAT would be cool...

manike

 

[Hotpoint]

Originally posted by manike
I want a barrel made from unobtainium...

Now THAT would be cool...

Now you're just being silly

Anyway. Get me a block of Vanadium and I'll dust off my metal lathe

Titanium barrels spark by the way? Never seen that

 

[manike]

Originally posted by Hotpoint
Now you're just being silly

Who me? With my reputation?

Yeah your right, unobtainium is a hard material to source and very expensive

Originally posted by Hotpoint
Titanium barrels spark by the way? Never seen that

seriously? Get a titanium boomer and go shoot it out back at night... and try not to get arrested