Home made action vise?

[astross89]

just installing a barrel, not taking one off. any reason i cant take a 2x4, drill a hole, and cut it in half? can use metal plate on the out side of the block for my bench vise to apply even pressure. any thoughts?

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e42/hnk72800/vise.png

[308law]

as long as you can hold it tight enough to tighten the nut down, I don't see any reason it won't work. I did the same thing for my barrel vice, but I don't use it for any thing but holding the barrel so I can work on it, I still use a steel action wrench to tighten and remove the barrel nut.

[5spd]

Thats what I use when Im doing mine. I put electrical tape around the spot the blocks are going to be placed, slide on barrel wrench, place in vice & clamp down. If it truns when I work the wrench, just tighten the vise more.

[astross89]

thought it would work. thanks too all

[bsekf]

I used a 2x4 piece of oak. I use duct tape on the barrel. Oak is hard enough to mark a blued barrel if it slips.

Bill

[WYcoyote]

Pic of my homemade barrel vise.

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/oo121/mjkbpics/Guns/barrelvise001.jpg

[bsekf]

That looks lik it would work and I see a rotary sear dressing machine too! Just the ticket for fine tuning a trigger. ;D

[WYcoyote]

I used the flapper wheel to smooth out the steps in the hole through the oak blocks.
To make a tapered hole, I drilled the block with 3 different sized bits each about one third of the way. sawed it in half, and then transitioned the steps to make a taper to match the barrel.

I use a BF hammer to adjust the trigger. ;D

[FW Conch]

I use your idea, with oak blocks, on the "action", in a vise. But I install a socket head cap screw in the oak, that the recoil lug can ride

against, preventing anything from turning. This even works when removing a factory barrel. I only "install" my barrels with 40ft #'s

of torque, so thats not a problem. I got this idea from another member on this site. Good Luck-Good Shooting ... Jim :)

Sorry, I don't do pictures yet :-[