Removable Touch-hole Liner on Kibler?

[Kansas Kid]

I believe the White Lightning liners are stainless steel. I've never removed one.

Question; for those that HAVE removed a liner after it's been in there for a long time, did you have any particular difficulty in doing so? Oxidized iron and steel will take up more physical space than unoxidized metal, which can sometimes make loosening difficult. (Point of reference; we've all had to deal with nuts and bolts that have rusted together. Sometimes the bolts just shear off when trying to unstick things.)

I’ve removed 3 to 4 white lightning liners that had been in for quite awhile and had seen no reason to be concerned of corrosion in the threaded area.

 

[flconch53]

The thing to remember is that old originals came with a touch hole drilled in the barrel. These would burn out over time and then a liner would be installed. Also remember stainless steel was not around in the early days. Liners were usually bronze. I have seen old originals with a .22 caliber touch hole or so it seemed from the original getting burned out. Anyway unless you are ADHD there is no reason to be removing your touch hole liner.

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

The thing to remember is that old originals came with a touch hole drilled in the barrel. These would burn out over time and then a liner would be installed. Also remember stainless steel was not around in the early days. Liners were usually bronze. I have seen old originals with a .22 caliber touch hole or so it seemed from the original getting burned out. Anyway unless you are ADHD there is no reason to be removing your touch hole liner.

I have never seen an original gun with a bronze liner.

 

[flconch53]

Well they didn't have stainless

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

Are you sure?

 

[flconch53]

In the eighteenth century yes. It was alloyed in 1913

 

[Dusty_Traveler]

I would think a big reason there are removeable liners would be for mass production/interchangability. I don't remove my liners to clean, but you gotta take them out somehow if you're going to swap a production gun from one ignition to the other.