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Savage switch barrel
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<blockquote data-quote="ntsqd" data-source="post: 2765103" data-attributes="member: 93138"><p>The one switch barrel rifle that I've ever seen switched at the range used a strap wrench as the only tool. No action wrench was used. Torque spec was one grunt. They were shouldered barrels in a 700. This was about 1985 or so.</p><p></p><p>Jamming the barrel nut either with a thin nut or with the set-screws means that the head space for that barrel is set. Can think of it as a user adjustable shoulder.</p><p></p><p>Once the head space is set I wouldn't use a tool on the nut to swap barrels, only a strap wrench on the barrel itself.</p><p>I'd only use either the brass tipped set screws that I linked earlier in this thread or the nylon version of the same thing. I'm not going to use 271 on scope ring screws, but at the same time I don't fear Lock-tite either. A drop or two of 241 in the barrel threads wouldn't be a bad thing.</p><p></p><p>The thin nut jamming the barrel nut is arguably the more elegant solution, but either method will work. Could make a thin nut by simply facing off and narrowing a barrel nut. Parallelism of the two sides of such a nut would be of the highest importance and I'd start with a high quality nut so that the first face is assumed to be very perpendicular to the threads.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ntsqd, post: 2765103, member: 93138"] The one switch barrel rifle that I've ever seen switched at the range used a strap wrench as the only tool. No action wrench was used. Torque spec was one grunt. They were shouldered barrels in a 700. This was about 1985 or so. Jamming the barrel nut either with a thin nut or with the set-screws means that the head space for that barrel is set. Can think of it as a user adjustable shoulder. Once the head space is set I wouldn't use a tool on the nut to swap barrels, only a strap wrench on the barrel itself. I'd only use either the brass tipped set screws that I linked earlier in this thread or the nylon version of the same thing. I'm not going to use 271 on scope ring screws, but at the same time I don't fear Lock-tite either. A drop or two of 241 in the barrel threads wouldn't be a bad thing. The thin nut jamming the barrel nut is arguably the more elegant solution, but either method will work. Could make a thin nut by simply facing off and narrowing a barrel nut. Parallelism of the two sides of such a nut would be of the highest importance and I'd start with a high quality nut so that the first face is assumed to be very perpendicular to the threads. [/QUOTE]
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