School of the American Rifle has done a 5 part video series on trying to save a fire damaged PSA AR 15.
When I saw the title of video one, my machinist, metallurgist, and welding background kicked in and I immediately said no.
Well, I couldn’t have been more wrong, mainly attributable to the fact the gun didn’t get extremely hot.
What followed was an extremely informative video series that not only teaches, but attests to PSAs quality. Many PSA parts passed Chad’s rigorous QC checks that many manufacturers fail that charge double, triple, even five times PSA’s prices on ARs. Chad notes this fact during his pre assembly inspection.
If it’s still $20 I’m debating paying. PSA introduced me to the AR platform a little more than a year ago (1st purchase for my youngest son’s birthday). He wanted one and after substantial research, which I typically do, led me to PSA. I can’t find the link anymore but somebody did a torture test on 5 different manufacturers on YT iirc 20,000 rounds, PSA was the only one to survive. I think it was a steel cased ammo test of 5 different manufactures as well. Barrel slice and dimensional/metallurgical exam at the end. Tula got removed early. I’ll try to find the Y T video again, they didn’t even clean them right. Probably should have posted this on the high/quality/low quality thread. Sold me on the PSA AR platform.
I think I got a couple of them strung together in my head, happens. One I did find again so far was a steel vs brass 20k rounds, 10 ea. I’m still digging.
Thank you sir! Pretty sure that’s the one I’ve been looking for for quite awhile now and I did somehow blend both of them together in my head. I think there may be one more out there with a compilation of several of his tests. I think I was skipping past these in particular as they were from AKOU. I wouldn’t have back then as the AK platform was what I owned and enjoyed exclusively at that point.
I know for a fact that if they are lets say in a house fire and just in a closet when the fire department comes and puts out the fire those are the guns you get are 50/50 workable steel. Now if you have your guns in a safe and the fire hits. Then the fire department comes and puts it out, the vapor and steam from the guns being in ANY !!! type of safe then your guns are completely destroyed and every part is unusable. The insurance companies even have different payouts and levels for in safes or out because of the complete damage after a house fire in any safe even the best fire safes on the market!!! So if you care about saving some serious cash on safes and insurance , everyone STOP buying those Fire safes unless you want a little one in your normal safe for documents and other things.
