Removing breech plug...barrel keeps spinning.

[ZUG]

No need to beat this horse to death -- what I used has worked for me (again see my pictures) and what you all have used worked for you. I'm happy for you all

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

No need to beat this horse to death -- what I used has worked for me (again see my pictures) and what you all have used worked for you. I'm happy for you all

Yes, removing a breech plug doesn't take a PHD.

 

[FlinterNick]

Yes, removing a breech plug doesn't take a PHD.

I agree but do a search on the forum it’s one of the often asked questions …. So pull out the PHD on breech plug removals…. DR PULL THAT PLUG !

 

[Colonial Boy]

Here’s what works for me, my barrel vyce is simple and very strong.
Railroad tie plates from a switch, 1 inch thick and two 1 inch bolts from the same source
Machined steel clamps fitted to barrel and paper liners,
Never had a barrel slip in this set-up

The greenery is from a tree that I’ve just ringbarked.
The vyce lives under a bit of a lean-to that also houses the forge.

 

[Brokennock]

The interesting thing is,, that @bjarard ,, the original poster,, has never come back to this thread.

Probably because at least 5 people continued to pester him about why he was even bothering to take the plug out,,,, after he explained it on page ONE.
Then of course we have to have our interpersonal squabbling about what is necessary and what is not and what is the best way or how wrong someone else is



Sometimes these topics can be like a bad reality t.v. show egos

 

[FlinterNick]

Probably because at least 5 people continued to pester him about why he was even bothering to take the plug out,,,, after he explained it on page ONE.
Then of course we have to have our interpersonal squabbling about what is necessary and what is not and what is the best way or how wrong someone else is



Sometimes these topics can be like a bad reality t.v. show egos

To each his own, i got my advice from a ex military machinist / engineer, i did the whole wood block think but found in cumbersome to have wooden blocks for each diameter i needed, so joined the machines groups, and bumped into a thread about removing seized up transmissions lugs, there’s just one flat ( on the model they were discussing), the aluminum shim was used rather easily to remove it and it had never been removed since its manufacture date.

Since then I’ve been able to apply that to almost every barrel, other than a wall gun breech that was machined on.

Regardless of how easy people here feel it is to remove a breech plug, we all here at one time or another had to figure it out.

 

[Philip Lebow]

Get a Rice breech plug wrench to start with.....And a Big or barrel vise. Just Sayin