Bazzatron
Proactive member
Howdy Gang,
I thought I would seek the wisdom of some of you more experienced gunsmiths and tinkerers.
I'm currently working on restoring a Gamo CFX royal that I was kindly given by a forum member here - I've mostly acquired all the parts I need for a rebuild, but I was looking into having the action blackened properly by a local firm.
The issue I've got is that I'd like to remove the barrel from the cylinder, and I cannot for the life of me get it to start.
I've found the grub screw that was underneath one of the bolts:
But after removing it, no matter what I do, I cannot get them to come apart. I've tried locating the tube in my wooden vise using the flat and then using a rubber strap wrench to move the barrel, but eventually the band just slips. I tried wrapping the barrel in leather, grabbing it with mole grips, and it just tore up the leather.
I tried heating the thing with my MAP torch until it got toasty (just enough so I could smell the oil, I didn't want to affect the temper of anything), repeated the above, no dice.
Is there a special tool for this that I need? Ideally I want to do with without putting a massive gouge in the barrel, but there's seemingly just no good way to grip it. Half thinking that I need to build one of those barrel spiders that I've seen people using for truing a barrel to the bore axis rather than the barrel circumference.
A plumber mate of mine suggested getting a bunch of jubilee clips and using those as a sacrificial outer, but I'm not sure that these steel clips will leave the barrel unscathed.
Really hoping that someone has an idea in here!
Thanks in advance!
(To avoid XY problem - I have not observed that this is actually a threaded barrel, it just seems that in my research that it is likely to be - though the diagram doesn't show that this part can be dismantled, I doubt very much that they machine this thing out of one piece of metal...!)
I thought I would seek the wisdom of some of you more experienced gunsmiths and tinkerers.
I'm currently working on restoring a Gamo CFX royal that I was kindly given by a forum member here - I've mostly acquired all the parts I need for a rebuild, but I was looking into having the action blackened properly by a local firm.
The issue I've got is that I'd like to remove the barrel from the cylinder, and I cannot for the life of me get it to start.
I've found the grub screw that was underneath one of the bolts:
But after removing it, no matter what I do, I cannot get them to come apart. I've tried locating the tube in my wooden vise using the flat and then using a rubber strap wrench to move the barrel, but eventually the band just slips. I tried wrapping the barrel in leather, grabbing it with mole grips, and it just tore up the leather.
I tried heating the thing with my MAP torch until it got toasty (just enough so I could smell the oil, I didn't want to affect the temper of anything), repeated the above, no dice.
Is there a special tool for this that I need? Ideally I want to do with without putting a massive gouge in the barrel, but there's seemingly just no good way to grip it. Half thinking that I need to build one of those barrel spiders that I've seen people using for truing a barrel to the bore axis rather than the barrel circumference.
A plumber mate of mine suggested getting a bunch of jubilee clips and using those as a sacrificial outer, but I'm not sure that these steel clips will leave the barrel unscathed.
Really hoping that someone has an idea in here!
Thanks in advance!
(To avoid XY problem - I have not observed that this is actually a threaded barrel, it just seems that in my research that it is likely to be - though the diagram doesn't show that this part can be dismantled, I doubt very much that they machine this thing out of one piece of metal...!)
