1997 Testimonials Moly-Fusion

1997: "We did a bit of testing with Moly (Fusion) this weekend. We were testing with muzzleloaders and found some neat results. With round balls normally there is a limit to how hard you can push a ball out the barrel before the patch begins to shred and accuracy goes to pot. We found we could increase the powder charge from 60 to 90 gr. of FFFg before the patch began to shred. We did a sort of blind accuracy test. We had two White Mountain 1 in 66" twist ball barrels one treated one not. We shot groups at 100 yards off simple bench rest. The guys shooting didn't know which barrel was treated and which wasn't. We found accuracy improved from an average 7" group to 5" in the treated barrel. We also ran tests with conical (bullet shaped) projectiles. It seemed there was a relation between tightness of the bullet and accuracy in a treated barrel. For example Mini balls tended to key-hole all over the place out of the treated barrel but Lee REAL (Rifling Engaged At Loading) bullets shot much better out of a treated barrel. Groups (100 yards) went from 4" untreated to a bit under 3" from the treated barrel. My theory for the conical bullets is the treated barrel is so slick the loose projectiles sort of slip across the rifling and don't get enough spin. I hope the weather gets better for next weekend I've got some .223 (75 gr Hornaday), .308 and 30-06 (168 gr Sierra) rounds treated to do some tests at 600 yds."

Phil

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Thank you, the Molyfusion worked as expected. It was a little bit tricky to develop procedure for plating a thin wire, but it certainly sticks [like crazy] to tungsten, tantalum, and other metals that we tried. However, we [are] not interested in working with it because it did not provide any improvement in our particular application (chemical protection at 1800 degrees Centigrade).

Beside the gun market I would suggest to promote it for the high vacuum applications. For example, in high voltage vacuum electrical, feedthroughs that [are] often made of molybdenum.

Good luck,
1997: Stanley