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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - How do I take this off? (Page 2 of 2)
If you're going to go to the trouble of having it recrowned, you might as well stop by your local Harley/custom cycle shop and have them fill that nick with a dollop of welding rod... Anyone with skill and a TIG welder should be able to help you out for next to nothing. Then you can have it re-crowned and the threads chased, with no loss in thread engagement length (especially good if this barrel were to ever see a suppressor) or muzzle integrity. Just my unwanted advice, Clint |
but good job getting that sucker off
| Well I finally got mine off. I tried the method of grinding the weld and locating the pins. iIfound the pins but they would not budge. I then cut the brake nearly in half and with a cold chisel started splitting the brake until I had enough leverage to brake one of the tabs off. I the quartered the brake with a Dremel cut off wheel beeing careful not to get into the threads a little at a time and hitting with a large hammer and chisel between grinding breaks finally it all came off. I had about 10 pieces of the brake when I was done. It took about two hours total. I do not reccomend this for those that are not that mechanically inclined or impatient like me. Would I do it again? Yes now that I know exactly how to do it. BTW the reason the pins would not budge was due the fact that moisture had gotten into the break / pin area and started to rust. |
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I have a new Colt M4 6400c. The Barrel is 17.1 with factory comp, 16.1 without. It has 2 push pins through it. If I remove this will I have a threaded barrel? There is no crush washer behind the comp. I would like to install a fs in place of the comp. Thanks Grassyjoe |
Nope, you'll have to turn the muzzle down to 1/2" and thread it 28TPI. You should be able to find a coupla of pics of Colt's with their brakes removed. Was quite a little flareup of the old style brakes spontaneously disassembling. |
[ARCHIVED THREAD] - How do I take this off? (Page 2 of 2)
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