Follower issues?

[Banshee]

Millions of 870s with steel followers still out there and working fine.

[Synchronizor]

Yeah, there's nothing innately wrong with metal followers. Remington themselves used stamped metal followers for decades until polymers improved to the point where they would serve reliably. Most stainless steel alloys are fairly soft, and shouldn't cause any major wear as they slide inside the tube. They certainly wouldn't be any harder on the gun than the steel rims on modern shotshells.

Galling is really only an issue with high-friction stainless-on-stainless contact, such as using a tight-fitting stainless machine screw in a threaded stainless hole without any lubricant. With certain alloys, this can scrape off the protective chromium oxide layers, and the two surfaces try to bond together. Even if 870 mag tubes were made of a soft stainless (which they aren't), there's very little force pushing the follower against the interior of the tube.

That said, I do prefer quality polymer followers over metal ones. The Delrin S&J followers are excellent, and I would recommend them to anyone.

[12GAfun]

Your pix are 1024 x 768. For this board, 400 x 300 would work better, like this:

This is the lowest resolution I can get, I have tried to lower it even more and every time I do it keeps changing it back to the resolution of my camera.

[12GAfun]

That's great now I have a 25.00+ follower that is a paper weight. Well maybe I can sell it in a garage sale. I have been using the green follower that came with the Wilson Combat mag tube kit. I like it and so far it works great. Thanks for all the info, also I will keep working on the picture resolution size, not liking this resize program its funky and won't resize them all the time or at all it seems.

[aegusto]

Here is an equally effective, free picture resizer that works a little differently. And then there's plain old MS Paint that is built-in to Windows. It is also free and will get the job done.

[Synchronizor]

Thanks for all the info, also I will keep working on the picture resolution size, not liking this resize program its funky and won't resize them all the time or at all it seems.

Are you running Windows? If so, any version of MS Paint will let you resize your images very easily. You can also use that program to crop the image (the pictures of your follower you posted earlier in this thread are a prime example of where cropping would be better than just size reduction), combine smaller images so you don't have to upload as many individual files, and even blur out things you may not want to publicly share, like serial numbers or license plates.

[12GAfun]

well here it is I finally got it to work, does this work.

Here is a pic of a office chair back after a few 00 buck shells. This is 800x600

[aegusto]

Try dropping the size to 400x300.

[12GAfun]

Here this better,

[Synchronizor]

Try dropping the size to 400x300.

800 pixels wide should be more than small enough for any computer made in the last 20 years. What platform are you viewing the forum on that the images need to be 400 pixels wide? Getting that small makes it hard to actually see what's going on in the image, which kind of defeats the purpose.