Try applying some heat with a heat gun.After getting as much advice as I could from the various, very helpful, members of this forum I attempted to strip my rifle today.
I already had the action removed from the stock, so my first job was to remove the cocking mechanism. This was very straightforward and easy to do. Drifted the roll pin out of the hinge hole on the trigger assembly and then removed the stud at the front and slipped the assembly of the barrel through the keyhole at the front its slot.
Now I’m stuck because I cannot shift the trigger mechanism from the barrel. I’m assuming it’s a right hand thread, so I turned a 1/2” diameter spigot on a length of 16mm diameter stainless round bar. That was a very snug fit in the large hole in the trigger mechanism. I then put the barrel in the soft jaws of a large bench vice and, with the bar in the hole, gave it a sharp whack in an anti-clockwise direction. Not a sign of any movement. Several ‘whacks’ later and holding it as tight as I dare in the vice (not wanting to distort anything on the barrel, I cannot get the thing to move.
Any suggestions anyone?
Cheers,
Kev