cant get the flash suppressor off my AR!!! i got a fake can for it and dont wanna take a wrench to the thing cuz i dont wanna ruin it...help?!?!
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flash suppressor help
- Thread starter LORD of WAR
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preban...no no heat...i remember being able to take it off rather easily before...now its on there good!
Possibly cross-threaded or more than likely it's simply seized up.
Clamp the barrel down good and tight (with either a set of barrel blocks or some strips of leather in the vice jaws), and go at it with an extension bar or length
of 1'-2' pipe on the end of the wrench for leverage (you'll have to cut one end of the wrench off so it'll slip inside the pipe).
Next time... apply some moly grease to the threads to prevent any barrel device from seizing.
Clamp the barrel down good and tight (with either a set of barrel blocks or some strips of leather in the vice jaws), and go at it with an extension bar or length
of 1'-2' pipe on the end of the wrench for leverage (you'll have to cut one end of the wrench off so it'll slip inside the pipe).
Next time... apply some moly grease to the threads to prevent any barrel device from seizing.
You properly reject "heat" because you have in mind the image of applying a torch to the metal of your gun. However, it is not heat, per se, that can free up a seized connection, but rather differential temperature. Here is a suggestion:
If you own or can borrow access to a chest-type freezer, field strip the weapon and put the barrel in the freezer long enough to achieve steady state (about 3-4 hours). Now, keeping a quick pace, remove the barrel and secure it somehow, while applying heat from an electric heat gun to the muzzle attachment and while maintaining a moderate torque on the attachment with a suitably padded wrench.
The electric heat gun won't raise the temperature of either the muzzle or the attachment high enough to affect the metalurgical properties of either, but it may cause the attachment to expand sufficiently to free it from the muzzle threads. And it will work or not within about 60-90 seconds; there is no need to apply the heat gun any longer than that. No guarantees, but if it works it is the least brutal of the methods that are available to deal with this problem.
If you own or can borrow access to a chest-type freezer, field strip the weapon and put the barrel in the freezer long enough to achieve steady state (about 3-4 hours). Now, keeping a quick pace, remove the barrel and secure it somehow, while applying heat from an electric heat gun to the muzzle attachment and while maintaining a moderate torque on the attachment with a suitably padded wrench.
The electric heat gun won't raise the temperature of either the muzzle or the attachment high enough to affect the metalurgical properties of either, but it may cause the attachment to expand sufficiently to free it from the muzzle threads. And it will work or not within about 60-90 seconds; there is no need to apply the heat gun any longer than that. No guarantees, but if it works it is the least brutal of the methods that are available to deal with this problem.
