Getting to be an expensive learning experience! Me and Bill Clinton "feel your pain". ;D
I spent $1K for equipment to make my own $40 Encore forearms.........makes sense to me.
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Getting to be an expensive learning experience! Me and Bill Clinton "feel your pain". ;D
I spent $1K for equipment to make my own $40 Encore forearms.........makes sense to me.
I don't have action wrench, but I got new bench vise, got it installed on the bench, got barrel tighten between two block and I'm giving blow after blow, still no result barrel skids.
Have you tried soaking that puppy up with Kroil?
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Yes it had Kroil for 2 days now... Now I was using 2X4 to knuck on 1/2 extension wrench as the result my barrel nut wrench looks like this now...
[img width=478 height=450]http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/3799/benchvise1.jpg[/img]
and 1/2 slot like this:
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/8981/benchvise2.jpg
and 2X4 just splintered in little pieces
What if I use torch to heat it up? It always worked on rusty old bolts and nuts...
Get the vise/blocks tighter and use a 3 pound dead blow hammer (not rubber mallet but a shot filled dead blow).
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Originally Posted by jinx-)
I'm sorry, I thought this meant you had an action wrench on the way to you already. That was why I posted the pics.
I think at this point, you may as well just cut the nut off. If your barrel nut wrench looks like that, then your barrel nut is probably boogered up just as much. I think at this point you should be looking for a gunsmith. Even if you get the nut cut off, that doesn't necessarily mean that the barrel will then come free. If it doesn't, then you're REALLY stuck, and will HAVE to get an action wrench and a gunsmith quality barrel vise to put new barrel blocks in to get the barrel out.
I think before you do anything else, you need to get an action wrench, and a new barrel nut wrench, and a true DEAD BLOW (as in soft face, lead shot filled) hammer.
Then start over from scratch using these tools to get it off. If you don't want to keep the action wrench for future rifle builds, you can always sell it here in the classifieds, they sell lightning fast.
Action wrench is on its way, I just thought I can get it off without it... By hammering on the barrel nut wrench with deadly blow of 2X4, which is pine and soft material. By the way the bench vise I got today from tractor supply was defective, so I got another one from Lowes defective as well, both are made in china...
What bothers me the most, why it won't turn??? Is it welded somehow???
did some searching found interesting thread on sniper's hide forum, that guy had same problem and even broke his bench vise, but he got it of with the help of dremel, by cutting it...
https://www.snipershide.com/forum/ub...Number=2078844
Did that once before I learned that the dead blow hammer is the key to it. The 2x4, a 5 pound sledge, rubber mallet etc. don't cut it - a shot filled dead blow makes it look easy.
Touchdown!!! An old trick I used to get break calipers off, because of the salt in the winter bolts are corroded, nothing would get them off for the exception of propane torch and PB Blaster "PB Penetrating Catalyst", so with break calipers I had to heat them up and when they are hot spray them with BP Blaster, this stuff bubbles penetrating any rust, when everything cools down it was easy job to get bolts off. So I tried the old trick on Savage barrel nut as the result, here it is, I didn't use any hammering just pushed it with the ranch and extension:
[img width=495 height=450]http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/2610/barnut.jpg[/img]
[img width=524 height=450]http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/7567/barnut1.jpg[/img]
[img width=556 height=450]http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/3373/barnut2.jpg[/img]
Well I learned it the hard way...
nice! i am about to attempt my first barrel change and mine seems pretty stuck today too. By coincidence, i bougt some pb laster today as well to try. Did it harm the finish at all
Jinx,
I'm glad you got the nut off. You didn't say, but I assume that means the barrel is out too? Or is it still stuck in the receiver?
Congrats jinx, I was going to suggest you park your car on top of the barrel next. :o
Well, after barrel nut was loose, I removed receiver, then recoil lug then barrel nut and barrel remained in the vise. PB Blaster didn't harm finish, however my previous attempts did, like ripping scope basses off and nuking crap out the nut, but its an easy fix, just have to sanded and do some bluing.
I didn't have to park car on top of it, I have RR track 100 yards from my house :-))