Saturday I got out in the sun to do a little shooting. When I brought it home I went to run a new brush through it with a standard old aluminum cleaning rod... BIG MISTAKE! It pushed in nice and easy but when I went to pull it back out the rod broke at the threaded joint.
No problem I figure I'll just unscrew the back and push it through....The barrel has a definite line just ahead of the flash hole and the steel is just a little different color. But there was no way it was coming apart. I muscled, swore, heated, swore, cooled,swore, tapped, swore some more and no matter what nothing moved even a little bit. Except for the fact that the joining line is dead straight I would swear it was a weld joint.
I finally took a 3/8 piece of rod stock and drilled & tapped the end just big enough to capture the rod and pull it out.
Has anyone else come up with this problem? Is the joint just that solid or is it actually one piece?
No problem I figure I'll just unscrew the back and push it through....The barrel has a definite line just ahead of the flash hole and the steel is just a little different color. But there was no way it was coming apart. I muscled, swore, heated, swore, cooled,swore, tapped, swore some more and no matter what nothing moved even a little bit. Except for the fact that the joining line is dead straight I would swear it was a weld joint.
I finally took a 3/8 piece of rod stock and drilled & tapped the end just big enough to capture the rod and pull it out.
Has anyone else come up with this problem? Is the joint just that solid or is it actually one piece?