Getting a barrel unstuck

[M98Punk]

OK so I searched and mine is a little different..... I got a rental mag from Bacci... mostly because I want to switch gears and make a double barrel pnuemag rifle. The whole thing was crammed full of sand (love 90ish cali rentals) I mean from insided the vertical adapter to the on off pin was stuck because of sand.

I got most of that cleaned up but I can't get the stock barrel out.... I saw the red flakes of doom in the barrel groves that make me think the barrel was loctited in place.... the vertical adapter was also loctited... I pulled the gun apart so it is just the barrel in the body... I put it in a vice and tried pulling... I heated it for an hour in boiling water Now I am trying to freeze it then drop it in some boiling water.... I also sprayed the crap out of it with penetrating oil earlier today. Anything else I can do?

[Ando]

Get a brass or wood dowel and start beating it from the back to the front.

[shives007]

Did you remove the twist lock pin? Sometimes they get tight,

Shives

[Ando]

Did you remove the twist lock pin? Sometimes they get tight,

Shives

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I pulled the gun apart so it is just the barrel in the body..

[M98Punk]

Got it off... freezed it, boiled it, drilled it, chopped it, hammered it finally got it off.... then I had to drill out the hole holding the vertical adapter on... I post up some pictures of what it looks like now in a bit

[M98Punk]

Ohhh broke my wooden dowel and mushroomed my brass so it almost didn't come out.... it was a red mess of sand and loctite

[M98Punk]

Longer on pictures do to me having to shorten a few screws to get her to fit back together.... you crazy rail people idk how you do it

[Spider-TW]

For future reference, the red loctite instructions say heat to 500F. I had the chance to talk to some actual "Loctite" reps, and they suggested 450F for 5 minutes. So properly assembled red loctite should withstand boiling water. I have run some through anodizing and a steam bath without it coming loose.

I'm sure a rental could use the boiling anyway.

[M98Punk]

I always thought the heat and cool was mroe about metal expansion to separate the locktite.... either way who locktites a twist lock barrel!?! Well as soon as I clean it up my Doc's adapter is going in and he will be a happy fellow

[M98Punk]

http://www.baccipaintball.com/t645.html#

That is the before set of pictures and here is some after...

Added a Benchmark single trigger frame, Doc Nickel cocker barrel adapter, level x, adjustable P-Stock, and a empty Rap5 bucket that I bought for the pin that is now in my drop out..... Eventually I am going to cut down the feed neck, put some Pneumatics into it and get it powder coated

[Ando]

ROFL!!!

That's freaking awesome!!!

I'm willing to bet since all the red stuff is by the breach hole. It's dried up 15 yr old paint and with all the sand packed in there, good indication that the marker probably never got cleaned in it's life span. How did the bolt and spring look?

Huge kudos to you in taking on a project like that.

That thing is a disaster. This is hands down the worst Mag I've ever seen.

[M98Punk]

The pictures don't give it credit... there was some dried paint in that beast but you could see they put a nice red line of loctite on the unused twist lock channel.

Best part is for s and g I put some air to the valve when it showed up.... held air!!! turned into a pissing machine when I pulled the trigger but that was because it had sand PACKED INTO THE TOP OF THE ON OFF!!!!

The bolt and spring was a mess of rust and sand... as was every inch of the valve... never seen anything like it. I stripped off all the o-rings everywhere (the one on the reg piston? Had mummified and was actually more sand then o-ring) and dropped it into a nice mix of penetrating oil then a soap and water bath. lots of blue and green scrubbies later and most everything is polished up... I need to replace some more o-rings first but she should be ready to go... Oh I also took the grinding wheel to some of the worst digs I have ever seen on a mag body I really think (and this is my remembering of 90's recball) that someone lost the rear screw, slide into the sand the gun came apart. The couldn't get it to work so they took the tank off (and got that pin valve packed with sand) then put the tank back on and tried to air it up. Finally used the mag as a baton of death for a hand to hand elimination.... Only thing I can think of that would cause this

[M98Punk]

I think I'm going to have to get the valve engraved with T-86 the Widowmaker....which would be fitting since eventually this will become part of my double barrel pnuemag

[M98Punk]

I can just drop an R/T on/off into a classic valve? Do I need to add the bigger top o-ring that classic on/offs have or will it work with just the little one that the RT on/off comes with?? I think with my SHP tank this will turn into a mean little backup

[M98Punk]

She works (almost) have to tune the lvl x some more or perhaps it was just the RT onoff? Either way I gassed her up leaked down the barrel and wouldn't cycle more then a hiccup