Is there any other barrel wrenches out there other than the wheeler type?
maybe something like a crowfoot type?
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Is there any other barrel wrenches out there other than the wheeler type?
maybe something like a crowfoot type?
I cut a Wheeler type down into a "crow foot". It fits on a flex handle, and can remove the barrel without removing the scope. I still use the standard wrench to do a " first time" barrel removal.
See Apache gun works. They have them.
By "crow-foot" you mean a wrench with a square hole for putting a large ratchet or breaker bar style handle into? Northland Shooter Supply has these also...
NSS has a lovely one. All the holes you could want.
Also by far the best action wrench.
Nice to deal with.
He also has a lot of the other bits and pieces needed or wanted, nut, recoil lug, I think some of the head space gauges, springs to change a Hunting acu trigger to Varmint pull of 1.5 lbs.
You have to get through to him though. NSS is a slam dunk phone call.Quote:
Originally Posted by strut64
Great info thanks
By "crowfoot ", I mean I cut the end out of it and thinned it down so it will fit under the mounted scope on a barreled action, installed in action blocks. Thus, the barrel can be removed without removing the mounted scope.
You might get by with a NSS short barrel nut wrench and then cut about 1/3 of it off, so you're left with a semi-circle cog wrench, instead of a full circle. Something like a crow foot wrench, but more like a toothy jack-o-lantern smile:becky:
^ That's a better way to put it ^. But I made My shortie out of a full length Wheeler, by cutting it off. And as I said, I use a flex handle in the square hole. I ended up with the extra Wheeler that came with the almost "useless" smooth nut wrench I ordered.
Because I got bored with basket weaving class ;-)), I made a second "cog wrench" out of the "useless" end of the standard Wheeler wrench by filing the rounded teeth square.
Just the therapeutic, thought free, mindless work I needed at the time. And I didn't even have to take a pill ;-)) !