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pperez550
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Skateboard tape - improves friction 
Hi Everyone,
I have the Wheeler Engineering barrel vise (wooden blocks) and external wrap-around wrench sold by Midway.
Frankly, the only reason I have it is so I'd have an excuse to take barrels off myself.
I was taking 2 barrels off Remington 700 highpower x-course actions to send to Pac-Nor for rebarreling. One of them was cerakoted and was particularly slick. Even with rosin powder, a fresh wooden block in the vise and a cheater bar on the vise nut wrench, it still turned. I didn't have any kroil lying around, so I put a little bit of WD40 in the front-most sight base screw hole and while letting it soak, remembered I had some old skateboard friction tape lying around.
After degreasing the barrel again, I wrapped it with the friction tape, mounted everything as per instructions on the vise and whacked the wrench handle with a rubber mallet - action came off like a charm.
FWIW
Hi Everyone,
I have the Wheeler Engineering barrel vise (wooden blocks) and external wrap-around wrench sold by Midway.
Frankly, the only reason I have it is so I'd have an excuse to take barrels off myself.
I was taking 2 barrels off Remington 700 highpower x-course actions to send to Pac-Nor for rebarreling. One of them was cerakoted and was particularly slick. Even with rosin powder, a fresh wooden block in the vise and a cheater bar on the vise nut wrench, it still turned. I didn't have any kroil lying around, so I put a little bit of WD40 in the front-most sight base screw hole and while letting it soak, remembered I had some old skateboard friction tape lying around.
After degreasing the barrel again, I wrapped it with the friction tape, mounted everything as per instructions on the vise and whacked the wrench handle with a rubber mallet - action came off like a charm.
FWIW
