Barrel vice

Kevin Stenberg

Kevin Stenberg

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With all of the comments so far I have 2 questions.
Wherever I am going to put the barrel vice at. How much smaller than the dia. of the barrel should I make the hole in the oak block?
Ian said that they bead blast for clean up. And in the process little particles get imbedded on the leading edge of the barrel nut. After I separate the action from the barrel. Should I take the barrel nut off of the barrel towards the muzzle or towards the chamber to reduce any damage to the barrel threads?
 
Ian

Ian

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Barrel vise bolts through the bench, near the edge. Or your hardwood blocks go in your heavy bench vise jaws. Hole = barrel diameter in front of nut minus barrel taper if any. Nut comes off the chamber end, IF you can get it to unscrew that far without ruining the threads.
 
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Tom

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Kevin Stenberg said:
With all of the comments so far I have 2 questions.
Wherever I am going to put the barrel vice at. How much smaller than the dia. of the barrel should I make the hole in the oak block?
Ian said that they bead blast for clean up. And in the process little particles get imbedded on the leading edge of the barrel nut. After I separate the action from the barrel. Should I take the barrel nut off of the barrel towards the muzzle or towards the chamber to reduce any damage to the barrel threads?
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Ian gives good advice on diameter of the hole. Just to help your thinking, the kerf of the cut will provide enough shrinkage to grip the barrel.
 
todd

todd

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yeah!!! well i uh.....you know, the thing........lol

i have used (25+ years ago) a vice to put on a Douglas barrel and a 98 FN Mauser action, but other than that, i let my gunsmith do it.
 
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popper

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Well Ian, one way to get rid of the NUT. Same vice I got, 50 yrs old, still works but I just C clamp to the bench. I just used pine (2x4 scrap) hole 1/4" small and clamp real tight. No rosin, just wood.
 
Ian

Ian

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popper said:
Well Ian, one way to get rid of the NUT.
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That particular barrel belongs to my Taurus Thunderbolt and in the photo I was using the blocks to hold it while I sawed the .45 Colt chamber off in preparation for facing, re-threading (metric), and rechambering to .45 ACP.
 
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Bret4207

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Ian said:
That particular barrel belongs to my Taurus Thunderbolt and in the photo I was using the blocks to hold it while I sawed the .45 Colt chamber off in preparation for facing, re-threading (metric), and rechambering to .45 ACP.
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Nice to see I'm not the sole person still using a file card!
 
todd

todd

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hornetguy said:
the only vice I have is whiskey.... well, that and cigars.
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i gave up drinkin and smokin when i had a stroke about 11 - 12 years ago. i'm into coffee now, but i have coronary heart disease (diagnosed last week) and i'm afraid the heart doctor (tomorrow morning is my appointment) is going to say "no caffeine for you", so i guess it will be the de-caffeinated kind.
 
Ian

Ian

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I gave up smoking in 2012 and can't drink much due to having developed an allergy-like alcohol intolerance. If a doctor tells me to give up coffee too I'm gonna tell him to pound sand or just shoot me.
 
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hornetguy

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Every time I visit with my Dr, she reminds me I need to give up cigars. I just say, Yeah, I know....
Missionary said:
Eat a dozen prunes a day and you will not need any more doctors.
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Maybe so, but the money you save on doctors will be spent at Wally world on toilet paper.... :D

an apple, ok.... but, prunes?
 
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hornetguy

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but... back on topic... my VISE is securely bolted to the edge of my workbench, and has been used to remove mauser barrels, and AR barrels with success. ;)
 
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