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First 700 barrel-changing venture not going so well.
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<blockquote data-quote="shortgrass" data-source="post: 905855" data-attributes="member: 24284"><p>I only use the delrin bushings for assembly. I made my vise as a 'required' tool while in gunsmithing school, my action wrench and Remington adaptors for the wrench, too. The vise is made of 1 1/2 x 2"cold rolled steel with a 1 1/2" hole bore between the two halves. The bushings are 1 1/2" C.R. steel or aluminum bar with the taper of the barrel bored. I have at least 3 dozen sets of different of bushings, maybe more. If I need a set, I make 'um. The two halves of the vise are drawn together with the barrel sandwiched between the bushings with four 1/2" socket head cap screws, most of the time I only have to tighten two. I would probably split wood bushings. I have no experience with any other vise. The action wrench is made of 1 1/4" square C.R. steel with about 10" of that turned and knurled on the 'handle' end. It is designed to go over the outside of the action, in this case there is an 'adaptor' that fits the 700s lug ways and straddles the rail on the port side. That way it grabs the lug ways, only. The wrench, overall, is 24" long. Good leverage. It hasn't been leverage enough for some Mausers I've dis-assembled, had to get pretty rough with them. I'm not familiar with the vises you've mentioned. Most of the 'commercial' vises and wrenches I have seen look like tinker toys when compared to what we built in school. The stuff found on the threads of Rems is a 'sealant' not a 'thread locker'. On blued guns it's there to keep the bluing salts from collecting there and not being able to be rinsed out, thus causing sever corrosion over time. Don't know as I've noticed it on S.S. or not. With the commercial tools it my wise to have a gunsmith break the barrel loose for you and then you can use your tools for re-assembly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shortgrass, post: 905855, member: 24284"] I only use the delrin bushings for assembly. I made my vise as a 'required' tool while in gunsmithing school, my action wrench and Remington adaptors for the wrench, too. The vise is made of 1 1/2 x 2"cold rolled steel with a 1 1/2" hole bore between the two halves. The bushings are 1 1/2" C.R. steel or aluminum bar with the taper of the barrel bored. I have at least 3 dozen sets of different of bushings, maybe more. If I need a set, I make 'um. The two halves of the vise are drawn together with the barrel sandwiched between the bushings with four 1/2" socket head cap screws, most of the time I only have to tighten two. I would probably split wood bushings. I have no experience with any other vise. The action wrench is made of 1 1/4" square C.R. steel with about 10" of that turned and knurled on the 'handle' end. It is designed to go over the outside of the action, in this case there is an 'adaptor' that fits the 700s lug ways and straddles the rail on the port side. That way it grabs the lug ways, only. The wrench, overall, is 24" long. Good leverage. It hasn't been leverage enough for some Mausers I've dis-assembled, had to get pretty rough with them. I'm not familiar with the vises you've mentioned. Most of the 'commercial' vises and wrenches I have seen look like tinker toys when compared to what we built in school. The stuff found on the threads of Rems is a 'sealant' not a 'thread locker'. On blued guns it's there to keep the bluing salts from collecting there and not being able to be rinsed out, thus causing sever corrosion over time. Don't know as I've noticed it on S.S. or not. With the commercial tools it my wise to have a gunsmith break the barrel loose for you and then you can use your tools for re-assembly. [/QUOTE]
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