REINSTALLING BARREL

[mrpistol]

Hello
Just glass blasted a barrel and now would like some ideas on how to put barrel back on reciever without marking it.
Mr.pistol

 

[X Ring Accuracy]

Use a heavy paper in your barrel vise. Like a shoe box cardboard thickness.

 

[watercam]

Duct tape or Gorilla tape works as well. Lead shims are the old stand by - any residue wipes right off. I gave up on rosin a long time ago and am a firm believer in aluminum jaws instead of wood or steel bushings.

 

[fdshuster]

Toilet paper tubes ( we all have a lot of those) or the cardboard tubes from "Bounty" type paper towells. Make one cut down the length, wrap one around the barrel & you can even use masking tape to hold it tight on the barrel. The tubed cardboard will hold it's shape, and you can always add additional layers.

Just did 3 barrel removals and 2 installations, using my Davidson barrel vice & the tube I used still does not any cuts through the cardboard.

I used to use heavy brown shopping bag paper, but the cardboard tubes are much better.

 

[Preacher]

Plus 1 for the paper tubes, been using them for years without a problem...

 

[mdavis78102]

Post-it notes work pretty well. And they have sticky on them to hold them to the barrel long enough to get them in the vise.

 

[firearmdoc1]

Aluminum bushings are definately better than wood or steel along with paper and rosin for the really tight ones.

 

[Cakes]

A small chunk of leather works too! Eric in DL

 

[Steve Blair]

++ for leather. Great grip and non-marring.

 

[jonbearman]

I use index cards and thanks for the tip using leather and toilet paper tubes.

 

[jrm850]

I read a tip on another forum where they said that brown sugar under the paper works way better than rosin. I have no idea if it works or not. Anyone else ever heard of this?

I just turned a nylon bushing and use rosin for most barrels. If I get a tight one, I go old school and pour lead bushings.

 

[STS]

Drywall tape works like a champ. Any metal bushings are going to mark the freshly glass blasted surface of the barrel.