Get some heat on it.
Hi,
Picked up a .25" HW barrel off the bay before Xmas. Now I am looking to have a play with it I have found the silencer adapter has been wedged on over the foresight grooves and is stuck fast.
I tried putting on a silencer for a better grip, didn't work.
I put a washer between the adapter and silencer, hung it from the jaws of my vice, had a few whacks with a rubber mallet on the breech block. Didn't work.
Anyone have any other ideas before I try to cut/file it off without damaging the barrel?
Cheers
Rich
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Get some heat on it.
Heat the adaptor, I assume it will be aluminium and will soften very easily with a bit of heat, you shouldn't mark the blueing on the barrel even if you get the alli up to annealing temp. As you were trying with a silencer I would keep trying with the silencer in a vice and a few smart blows to the breech block it should start moving with a good bit of heat on the adaptor. As a temperature indicator you know you've got the alli to annealing temp if it chars the end of a match stick when touched (obviously not the striking end and not with the blowtorch still one the alli!)
A rubber mallet may not be the best thing to whack it with, a wooden mallet or try it with a block of wood against the breech block and a normal hammer on it, it'll give a smarter shock the get things moving.
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Cheers, had tried a wooden block with the rubber mallet too. Will now try heat and wooden block and metal hammer as suggested, hope it saves an hour or so of carefully filing!
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Had this problem with a theoben, silencer fixed on with Loctite. Held silencer under hot/boiling water from kettle and barrel under running cold water from tap. Eventually came free with a click! I was able to use a rubber strap wrench, but yours sounds like a straight pull will be needed. HTH David
Yep, looks like there was glue or loctite to help it stick even though forcing it over the grooves probably did a a good enough job! It's off after heat, and a few good whacks with a real hammer on a wooden block!
Let the .25" experiment begin
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