Everything stuck down the barrel! Hydraulic removal?

[Blackrider]

Gone a bit quiet, everything OK "Rover" ?

[where's it gone]

If the first projectile got stuck and further projectiles were loaded, how many did this Darwin award winner put in ?
Home made projectile s come to mind.

[NewPaul]

General question: In situations like this, wouldn’t lead embed itself in the flutes of the rifling? How would you deal with that?

[where's it gone]

General question: In situations like this, wouldn’t lead embed itself in the flutes of the rifling? How would you deal with that?

Unless it's solid slugs, the pellets have a hollow skirt area, it's the blast of air that's expand the skirt into the rifling as the pellet travels down the barrel. Lead, being a soft metal, should be easy to push out. But, it seems not in this case. Maybe an alloy type pellet, Prometheus or even followed by ball bearings ?

[ashf9999]

Unless it's solid slugs, the pellets have a hollow skirt area, it's the blast of air that's expand the skirt into the rifling as the pellet travels down the barrel. Lead, being a soft metal, should be easy to push out. But, it seems not in this case. Maybe an alloy type pellet, Prometheus or even followed by ball bearings ?

Guess it’s down to friction. One pellet on its own will push through easily with a rod. A number compacted together means the friction ramps up. If the domed nose of the following pellet pushes into the skirt, that really wouldn’t help much.

[Blackrider]

And a section of broken rod is possibly in there too !

[Shed tuner]

And a section of broken rod is possibly in there too !

was in there

[angrybear]

General question: In situations like this, wouldn’t lead embed itself in the flutes of the rifling? How would you deal with that?

As I said earlier, brute force, hit them so hard the flutes shear off.

[rovercoupe]

It’s on the back burner got a holiday and a birthday for a 3 year old to deal with! And I am waiting for some more rods to arrive in the correct diameter.
Don’t worry when I get some time I will let you know how I get on.

[rovercoupe]

Well today could have gone better, decided to weld an old hydraulic fitting onto the end of the barrel and give it 10,000 psi of hydraulic oil. It didn’t push anything out and oil made it out the other end at 8,000 psi so that idea is a no go.
Then welded a plate onto the end of the barrel with a 5.5 mm hole in it to support it in the hydraulic press, managed to burn my fingers on hot steel when I forgot just how hot steel gets when sticking it together! Managed about 1cm of pushing and then started to bend the ejector pins no matter how short it was. So the Chinese metal is not to the correct hardness so might have to heat treat them and see if that works.

Failing that it’s going on the milling machine and I’m going to section the blummin thing to see what’s in there!

[ashf9999]

Wow. You must really want that barrel. I’d have binned it by now.

[Shed tuner]

I'd have drilled it out and fitted a liner...

[ashf9999]

Unless there’s a broken drill bit already wedged in the middle.

[Shed tuner]

Unless there’s a broken drill bit already wedged in the middle.

lol yeah, why not ? It's had everthing else in there.

New plan Rover: can you section it longtitudinally please ? We're all dying to see

[rovercoupe]

Think I’m going to try heat again, I have a hydraulic cylinder tube that’s scrap so going to cut a hole in the side at the bottom and stick the blowtorch in it and drop the barrel in and hopefully the heat will stay in the tube enough to melt out whatever is in there.
It’s become a quest to free the barrel doubt it will ever shoot again but would like a result now!

If that fails then yeah it’s getting milled as a wall exhibit.