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removing red loctited bases???
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my first rifle I got about 20yrs ago, the guy at the gun shop put the scope bases on with red loctite, the screws are in so tight that I worry about stripping out the screw or breaking the allen wrench. what is the best way to get these out??


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Take it out of the stock so you don't incinerate anything and warm the base with a propane torch.


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Roll EyesA good bit of heat properly applied and if necessary a drop or two of Kroil while cooling. May take more than one application. waveroger


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I make a sacrificial screw driver, it looks like a screw driver but its really just a heat transfer tool. Seat the fake screw driver in the screw slot and then heat the shank to red hot. It will convay the heat into the screw but you don't have to wrry about over heating anything else. When the lock tight bubbles put a real screw driver on the scew and it will come right out.


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I use an old fashioned plumber's soldering iron. The thing gets hot enough to tin copper pipe, but has a sharp pointed tip. I just let the tip sit on the screw head for about two minutes and the screw comes right out with little effort. FWIW, it also works real good on bases that are epoxied. Don't ask how I know that one.
I would imagine that a regular soldering iron would work just as well.
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Posts: 2814 | Location: Tucson AZ USA | Registered: 11 May 2001Reply With Quote
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I would imagine that a regular soldering iron would work just as well.
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Loctite melts at about 400°F so a soldering iron should be great.
 
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I like to grind a screwdriver edge on a soldering iron, place that in the screw slot while the iron is chucked into a drillpress, and I heat the base with the screw with a torch or a heat gun after soaking the area with the screw in Kroil and before I did that I put a proper-sized screwdriver in the slot and rapped it with a hammer and tried drilling the screw out.
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Rusty Marlin ; Has the right Idea as the fake screw driver directs the heat too the screw it's self . There is a solvent combination that will dissolve that adhesive . The trick is getting it on the threads !. Heat is a better way to go . ...

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