Any one have an idea if there is a way to hold a barrel ( barrels are scrap) quickly and securely....No slipping........ for a large quantity of barreled actions.
I was thinking about some kind of tool from the plumbing industry. The barrel vice is very slow and even with rosin the rust and old threads are tough to break.
Thanks, Alan

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Originally posted by kaprota:
Any one have an idea if there is a way to hold a barrel ( barrels are scrap) quickly and securely....No slipping........ for a large quantity of barreled actions.
I was thinking about some kind of tool from the plumbing industry. The barrel vice is very slow and even with rosin the rust and old threads are tough to break.
Thanks, Alan

Almost any bench vice will have pipe jaws under the square jaws as can be seen in this photo.





If that doesn't sufice, a portable chain type pipe stand vice might do the trick.

I haven't tried it on anything smaller, but the 100 ton press in the shop has sped things up in the past.

Use it to compress the barrel vice around a set of aluminum inserts instead of using the bolts to draw it down.

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Originally posted by fireball168:
I haven't tried it on anything smaller, but the 100 ton press in the shop has sped things up in the past.

Use it to compress the barrel vice around a set of aluminum inserts instead of using the bolts to draw it down.

He's scapping the barrels so scarring them doesn't matter.

He could also clamp the action wrench in a vice & just use a large pipewrench W/a cheater on the barrel itself.

Umm mount the action wrench in the vise, than use a 48" pipe wrench on the barrel? You did say you were scrapping the barrels.

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Originally posted by Tailgunner:
Umm mount the action wrench in the vise, than use a 48" pipe wrench on the barrel? You did say you were scrapping the barrels.

Yep, clamp the action wrench in the vise with no bolts to speed things up and use a 3 foot pipe wrench on the barrel. I've pulled several tomato stakes off military mausers this way.
Don

Hydro press.

If you put the action in a vice it will
compress against the threads not a good thing.

If they are mauser (or any flat bottomed action), the action wrench really doesn't have to be very tight. I have pulled many a barrel on mausers with the bolts just finger tight on the wrench. Mount the wrench in the vice so you can tighten the clamping bolts by hand and slip the action in and out. Then go with the pipe wrench. I have never seen a barrel a good pipe wrench wouldn't grip and take out. Surprisingly, I have often seen them as badly marked up by slipping barrel vices.

Nine posts, "vise" misspelled in six of them.

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Originally posted by tin can:
Nine posts, "vise" misspelled in six of them.

Not to mention the title of the thread.

Misspelling "vise" is only a minor "vice"!

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Misspelling "vise" is only a minor "vice"!

Found the problem with reluctant de-miitarized barrel removal. The spot weld needed to be cut through completely. Da