FWIW the last one I did that was difficult, I set up the action wrench, barrel nut wrench, blocks of wood to hold things level and configured it on the floor so that when I smacked the barrel nut wrench with my large rubber mallet it would take the nut AND the barrel from the receiver at the same time. Then I did the soak, clean and file threads etc until I could get the nut off without cutting it off. It was a pain but it worked. I also replaced the action wrench receiver bolt with a bolt that has a 'shoulder' on the end of it...before the threads start so that there was some metal to help with leverage. Shade tree engineering comes through again :) kb
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