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Removing a Rem. Barrel
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<blockquote data-quote="44-40" data-source="post: 2834214" data-attributes="member: 126985"><p>I take off many barrels from Remington 700 factory actions. You need the right tools for the job. Warning the worst case...You can bend a 1 " solid steel bar with a cheater bar and not budge some barrrels, they have to be machined off. Rusted on? Is what it looked like. Get the heaviest duty action wrench and vise you can find all steel and weighs a bunch. The wooden oak blocks will crush and slip in the barrel vise. Use aluminum machined to the exact barrel diameter and slit in half. Lube the 1" dia hardened barrel vise bolts so as not to gall the threads as you tighten the nuts 1 1/2" nuts use a 2 foot cheater and your weight. I do this on a big heavy Bridgeport mill table. Tape the action with black electrical tape cause you're gonna reuse it. Use the recoil lug cutout and the 5/16" bolt through the bottom of the 700 action clamp up the action tight. The process begins..it's all heavy duty and requires strong vise and heavy bench ...don't give up until you start to damage the barrel take off tools...then it's over to the lathe, and use a parting tool backed off .001-".002" from the recoil lug cut down below the recoil lug diameter of the barrel ...release the pressure against the recoil lug. So the barrel and action are now under no pressure...just sitting there like a bolt and nut you can thread on with your fingers...not so fast the **** thing is rusted on, glued on cause it's gonna still take a fair amount of effort to get it started...use penetrating oil ...it helps some. Then remachine your damaged factory action wrench. That's about all I know about that. Some are very difficult especially if 50 yrs old. I iuse my own internal action wrench for installing new barrels at 95 ft/lbs that uses the whole action not just the front lugs...never attempt to take off a Rem 700 barrel with an internal action wrench ..too much pressure is need to take off and damage your reciever...its okay if the action is designed for that or reworked for that but not an off the shelf Remington 700.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="44-40, post: 2834214, member: 126985"] I take off many barrels from Remington 700 factory actions. You need the right tools for the job. Warning the worst case...You can bend a 1 " solid steel bar with a cheater bar and not budge some barrrels, they have to be machined off. Rusted on? Is what it looked like. Get the heaviest duty action wrench and vise you can find all steel and weighs a bunch. The wooden oak blocks will crush and slip in the barrel vise. Use aluminum machined to the exact barrel diameter and slit in half. Lube the 1" dia hardened barrel vise bolts so as not to gall the threads as you tighten the nuts 1 1/2" nuts use a 2 foot cheater and your weight. I do this on a big heavy Bridgeport mill table. Tape the action with black electrical tape cause you're gonna reuse it. Use the recoil lug cutout and the 5/16" bolt through the bottom of the 700 action clamp up the action tight. The process begins..it's all heavy duty and requires strong vise and heavy bench ...don't give up until you start to damage the barrel take off tools...then it's over to the lathe, and use a parting tool backed off .001-".002" from the recoil lug cut down below the recoil lug diameter of the barrel ...release the pressure against the recoil lug. So the barrel and action are now under no pressure...just sitting there like a bolt and nut you can thread on with your fingers...not so fast the **** thing is rusted on, glued on cause it's gonna still take a fair amount of effort to get it started...use penetrating oil ...it helps some. Then remachine your damaged factory action wrench. That's about all I know about that. Some are very difficult especially if 50 yrs old. I iuse my own internal action wrench for installing new barrels at 95 ft/lbs that uses the whole action not just the front lugs...never attempt to take off a Rem 700 barrel with an internal action wrench ..too much pressure is need to take off and damage your reciever...its okay if the action is designed for that or reworked for that but not an off the shelf Remington 700. [/QUOTE]
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