Hi all, I was doing some chamber casts today and messed up on the Mosin Nagant.
I poured too much and it came up above the chamber so it wouldn't pound out. I used a propane torch to melt some on the top and tried pouring it out. I then put a cleaning rod in from the barrel, set it on the floor, heated the casting material and thumped the rifle down on the cleaning rod to break the sides off and get the cast out. It now looks like I have the stuff soldered inside the action in the lug recess.
I am dissasembleing the rifle and am thinking about heating with a propane torch to try and melt it out.
Any other ideas?
When I get it all apart, I'll see if I can get in with a dental pick but it seems to really be set in there.
Maybe I'll have to pull the barrel to get it all cleaned out.

Lar,

What are you using, cerrosafe? If so just boil a pot of water and stick the barreled action in it.

I'm useing a 225deg alloy that I got from mountain molds.
Is there any tricks to getting a Nagant barrel off? I made a barrel vise and action wrench for a Mauser.

or just get a heat gun from the local hardware store.. NOT a torch

jeffe

If you can get just the barreled action to fit in your freezer... freeze the crap out of it, pour boiling water over the outside of the chamber area and, as quickly as possible, pound out the casting.

Russ

I'm glad you got things worked out.

Personally, I like Mosin-Nagant rifles, but I also own Savages over which people get worked up over looks, too. Mostly, I just want rifles that shoot. "Looks" are a rifle accessory I'm usually not willing to pay for.

I don't know about doing a .375 Dakota on your rifle, but that's an attention-grabbing chambering.

Good luck.

Russ

Yeah,
A box of twenty shells will cost more than the rifle.
JCN

I already had the chamber part out, but a ring of the metal was left inside the action recess. I stripped the gun and was able to get a small screwdriver in and stated prying the edges loose. I worked it around and around until it was broke loose and came out. The flash that was stuck on came off when scrubbed with a hard wood dowel.
Now that it's all stripped and apart, my son thinks that I should build a 375 Dakota on it. I think that no matter what you could do to it, it would still be ugly.