Barrel Vise

Man, this thing looks awesome. I have one enroute to demo. Way cheaper than the SAC.

Gingerman said:

Man, this thing looks awesome. I have one enroute to demo. Way cheaper than the SAC.

SOLUS Barrel Vise Kit

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Brad
Hope all is well with you and your family.
Let us all know your review of this SOLUS Barrel Vise. Seems a little $$$$$.
We have been using this barrel vise (and an oxy acetylene torch) and never had a barrel and action we couldn't separate!

I'm working on a design that doesn't require bushings or being tightening. Easily reversible or just inset from the other end. I've learned this concept from industrial knowledge that will have a holding power more powerful than clamping force without non-maring also. Now it's making a prototype when there's time.

Coyote Shadow Tracker said:

Brad
Hope all is well with you and your family.
Let us all know your review of this SOLUS Barrel Vise. Seems a little $$$$$.
We have been using this barrel vise (and an oxy acetylene torch) and never had a barrel and action we couldn't separate!

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Just chowed on some Cajun crab legs and fixings. So right now all is grand!

ARlife4me said:

I'm working on a design that doesn't require bushings or being tightening. Easily reversible or just inset from the other end. I've learned this concept from industrial knowledge that will have a holding power more powerful than clamping force without non-maring also. Now it's making a prototype when there's time.

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You are directly ordered to keep me in the loop! That sounds awesome!

ARlife4me said:

I'm working on a design that doesn't require bushings or being tightening. Easily reversible or just inset from the other end. I've learned this concept from industrial knowledge that will have a holding power more powerful than clamping force without non-maring also. Now it's making a prototype when there's time.

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It's always fun to read about the ideas for prototyping. But sometimes the disconnect between ideas and actual prototyping can be a lengthy wait. Please be sure to keep all of us in the loop with this project!

I've got a Davidson vise but it will leave a stripe on a barrel, even with using toilet paper rolls as shims. I bought this to use on barrels that are coated and I'm finding myself using it more than the other, even on bare barrels.

SAC has a hinged one but I didn't feel it was worth the additional cost.

Hard to tell on that, no specs on the hardware.
Mine is shop made, with 7/8" threaded rod- all grade 8 (which is critical) including n&w.
If you're pulling the "toughest" barrels, you need clamping force (notwithstanding whatever the poster above has in mind) and surface area contact on the barrel- and you need the hardware that can withstand you tightening the nuts with a 3 or 4 foot cheater pipe.
You can have 2 tons of clamping force, but if you're only contacting a small surface of the barrel it's going to slip.

Obviously if the barrel has a few inches of straight cylinder/no taper at the shank it's easy-peasy. Some sporter contours like the Tikka have no cylinder- it's tapered from the receiver ring forward and these are the toughest. I either machine/bore a custom bushing or push the easy button and take a blank bushing and use Devcon 10110 putty to mold the contour inside the bushing.

What I don't like about the one above is it uses proprietary bushings- no idea why they're not simply round and have that strange protrusion on them. It ain't the bushing that slips when pulling a barrel.

I use a wheeler barrel vise and bolt it to the bench when needed. To help eliminate slip and marking, I bought some rosen powder from the local bowling alley to use inside the wooden V-blocks that come with the Wheeler system. A little goes along way with barrels but BA's use it by the gallon carton. A cup full will last a while.

Coyote Shadow Tracker said:

Seems a little $$$$$.

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