Posted by: noob on November 15, 2002 at 00:28:09

I wanted to make a sexy stainless steel lightened hammer for my E-99, then I realized the stock striker is hard as a file. The valve pin too, hard as glass. I know they make aftermarket strikers out of stainless-but are they hardened stainless? What about the titanium strikers? Titanium aint all that hard- no tougher than 303 stainless. I would think that wearing would be a problem with a non-hardened striker banging on the hard-as-glass valve pin. But what if the valve pin were re-made out of somethin a bit softer, like stainless? What do you think about re-making both the striker and the valve pin out of similar metals, so one would not beat a hole in the other? I dunno, maybe 303 can be hardened or at least case hardened- I'd have to look it up. Otherwise, I can simply make my lightened hammer out of 1144 and case harden it then polish it.

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