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<blockquote data-quote="Hired Gun" data-source="post: 1070623" data-attributes="member: 1290"><p>To subscribe every forum thread has a little drop down box with the option to subscribe. Otherwise it needlessly bumps the thread and then I feel obligated to comment. So here is my $500 worth on the subject. It might save you an action someday. </p><p> </p><p>The tightest factory guns we regularly see are Weatherby Vanguards. I put them in our 4 bolt aluminum lined steel vise and torque it down to 100 ft pounds on all four 1/2-20 bolts. I clock it so the action wrench handle is at 9:00. Then it takes 7-10 big blows with a 8 pound full sized sledge hammer to break them loose. I would wear out every rubber hammer made trying to do that on a Vanguard. </p><p> </p><p>I have a 5 pound plastic dead blow and it will not budge a Vanguard barrel but the sharp impact of steel on steel shocks them right apart. A Remington will come off with 2 or 3 bumps or a whack with a 3 pound hammer or a few more with the 5 pound dead blow. The sharp impacts also work way better than hanging on a 4 foot cheater bar. The bar will try to bend things that the impacts work by vibration. Too light of a hammer and all you do it put hammer marks in your action wrench. </p><p> </p><p>6 years now and never so much as marred the bluing or scuffed any Cerakote. </p><p> </p><p>Putting barrels on. The 9/16" lug nuts on my truck call for 140 ft pounds. 1/2-20 take 100 pounds. Most barrels are 1"+. We go on at 100 ft pounds with Neverseize. That is nothing for a 1" tennon. </p><p> </p><p>Browning A-Bolts with their paper thin action and 32 threads per inch might as well be welded on. I hate those things. I'm just waiting for the day I damage the engraving or have one gaul up. All it takes is for someone to damage the barrel threads with a scope base screw that is too long. </p><p> </p><p>One other note on heavy steel hammers. On pistol sights I have found the heavier 3 pound hammer will drift really stuck sights without damage where the lighter hammer just dings them up. It's a momentum thing. Watch out for Springfield XDs and Kimber 1911's. They are stupid tight.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hired Gun, post: 1070623, member: 1290"] To subscribe every forum thread has a little drop down box with the option to subscribe. Otherwise it needlessly bumps the thread and then I feel obligated to comment. So here is my $500 worth on the subject. It might save you an action someday. The tightest factory guns we regularly see are Weatherby Vanguards. I put them in our 4 bolt aluminum lined steel vise and torque it down to 100 ft pounds on all four 1/2-20 bolts. I clock it so the action wrench handle is at 9:00. Then it takes 7-10 big blows with a 8 pound full sized sledge hammer to break them loose. I would wear out every rubber hammer made trying to do that on a Vanguard. I have a 5 pound plastic dead blow and it will not budge a Vanguard barrel but the sharp impact of steel on steel shocks them right apart. A Remington will come off with 2 or 3 bumps or a whack with a 3 pound hammer or a few more with the 5 pound dead blow. The sharp impacts also work way better than hanging on a 4 foot cheater bar. The bar will try to bend things that the impacts work by vibration. Too light of a hammer and all you do it put hammer marks in your action wrench. 6 years now and never so much as marred the bluing or scuffed any Cerakote. Putting barrels on. The 9/16" lug nuts on my truck call for 140 ft pounds. 1/2-20 take 100 pounds. Most barrels are 1"+. We go on at 100 ft pounds with Neverseize. That is nothing for a 1" tennon. Browning A-Bolts with their paper thin action and 32 threads per inch might as well be welded on. I hate those things. I'm just waiting for the day I damage the engraving or have one gaul up. All it takes is for someone to damage the barrel threads with a scope base screw that is too long. One other note on heavy steel hammers. On pistol sights I have found the heavier 3 pound hammer will drift really stuck sights without damage where the lighter hammer just dings them up. It's a momentum thing. Watch out for Springfield XDs and Kimber 1911's. They are stupid tight. [/QUOTE]
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