removing muzzle break on 10 bas

[Guest m14man]

trying to remove the muzzle break on my 10 bas savage and it is being a butt. have soaked it in liquid wrench tried placeing an allen wrench through the baffle holes and it broke before it would even move its starting to piss me off. having the same problem on my new dpms mk 12 nato its been a but to. any ideas?

[Guest 6.8 AR]

Got it in a barrel vise, Randy? It's torqued on. Doubtful if Liquid Wrench will help.

[Guest m14man]

i got the whole gun in a vise manged to take my bushy and my scars off and m1a scout its being a real pain. on the scar it took a little pb liquid wrech but it came right off after that. gonna try shooting them and getting them warm and see if they loosen up if it burns off some of the thread lock im sure they used on it it shouldnt have been torqued more than 20 30 ft lbs.

[Guest GunTroll]

Heat helps.

[Guest 6.8 AR]

We were pm'ing back and forth. I told him to heat the brake and try not to

heat the barrel. Is that right?

[Guest GunTroll]

Thats what I would try. And I don't mean cherry red either. I don't know what that model looks like off the top of my head with out doing a search. I just wrapped up a Win 97 that each and every screw need a little heat to back out. Kroil and light heat from one of those little butane torches has been my friend on stubborn threads/screws in the past.

[Guest Lester Weevils]

For a relatively big part like a muzzle brake, would a heat gun make enough localized heat to help? Heat guns can get stuff pretty hot, but no competition to a torch of course.

[Guest 6.8 AR]

I told him to boil water and stick the brake only, in the water, maybe saving the finish.

I thought a torch might marr the finish. I figured it wouldn't hurt. Maybe it does need

more heat than that.

[Guest Lester Weevils]

Was just curious, thinking the same thing, would worry about me not having enough skill to use a torch and save a finish. In the bad old days heat guns were real expensive, but they sell around $20 at Ace hardware lately. Assuming a heat gun would work.

[peejman]

For a relatively big part like a muzzle brake, would a heat gun make enough localized heat to help? Heat guns can get stuff pretty hot, but no competition to a torch of course.

Depends on what's holding the brake in place. If it's just torqued really tight, yes an electric heat gun should help. It'll be slow, but it'll work. One trick is to mount the barrel vertically (or at least sloped) and pour water down the bore while heating the brake. The water will help cool the barrel.

It's possible that this brake is soldered on. No amount of twisting will remove it. You'll have to get a torch to melt the solder out. Look carefully at the edge of the threads and see if there's any solder visible.

I assume you've also checked that there's not a set screw holding it on?

[Guest m14man]

nope no set screw and not soldered it even has flats on it just like any assault rifle even says its removable ill get it off soon need to mount my black out on it.

heres some more pics of it

http://www.gunblast.com/Savage-BAS-K.htm

Edited September 2, 2010 by m14man

[Alleycat72]

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