Originally Posted by
ronlaughlin
Even mine?!? Mine are stainless!
I am thinking you are responding to my post about the real need for vent liners, but i am not sure. My real point was that a breech plug can be 100% successful igniting BH without having a ventliner. Sometimes, i get the impression that people think, one's breechplug needs a ventliner to successfully ignite BH, and that is simply not so. Be that as it may, some of my breech plugs have ventliners, and some don't. Myself, i have zero issues igniting BH, whether the plug i am using has a ventliner or not.
I don't feel near as strongly about ventliners as you do, one way or another. They work, and that is good, but they aren't necessary for all plugs. It is nice to install a ventliner in a breech plug when it's flash hole grows large enough to be disconcerting. It is also nice to be able to modify a breech plug so it will ignite BH, and use a ventliner to replace the ruined flash hole.
Stainless is way to soft. Actually not even safe to use. Do you no what kind of Stainless it is?
The Lehigh vent-liners are steel. They are hardened to Rockwell C60. They are also Gas Nitrided to 2100 degreas farenheit.
The hardening procedure Lehigh is using is also being done on i believe rocket launchers. This process is very expensive and highly effective on flame cutting.
For $20.00 bucks delivered gets you four vent-liners. Why settle for anything else.