Originally Posted by
Artfull-Bodger
OK take the breech block out of the jaws, drill a 18mm hole on a block of wood and then pass the barrel through it, put the block of wood on an open vice jaw to supprt it, then heat the breech block up with either a heat gun or flame, once smoking hot tap the breech end with a copper mallet or similar untill its gone flush with the breech block and use a 15mm x 100mm piece of alloy rod to tap it all the way out of the block!
its as simple as that, they were pressed in with some kind of resin in the factory, when you refit the new barrel dont glue it simply fit it and use grub screws in the rearsight holes on the block to retain it, or you can simply shorten the rearsight cap screws (does assume your using a scope)!
I mark and spot drill the barrel where the screws touch it, its totally secure and you can disassemble it in seconds if you need to do any work like threading the barrel!
regards
Mike.
What the Hawk MkIII should have been!
The South of England has 2 good things, the M1 and the A1. Both will take you to Yorkshire.