How to determine how much torque on barrel?

[frostop]

Yeah, no shims came with it!

I'll figure something out, just don't want to bugger up the top or the bottom of the action!

Thank you for all the replies, kinda wish I had gone into gunsmithing or machining instead of what I currently do!

Gary

 

[Hired Gun]

Cardboard, paper, tape, leather, wood and lead all compress and can smash out if you encounter a tight one. Factory installed barrels can be as tight as 500+ foot pounds. Remington are never that tight but some others can be. Save yourself the trouble of a bunged up gun and use something a little more solid like copper, brass, or even aluminum. Your local Ace Hardware should have some brass shim stock.

Don't you have a smith anywhere near you? It costs about nothing to have a barrel popped off. I liken them to removing a lug nut. In the time it took to type this I could have pulled 2 barrels. And if I were to mark up your gun I make it right even if it means buying you a new one.

 

[frostop]

Yeah, I do have smith's around, I just wanted to learn how to do it myself. This rifle the barrel came loose on it's own and just needs to be torqued back down.

If I have a headspace issue it may come to that, the problem is that this rifle is a wildcat chambering and go and no-go gauges are not readily available.

I have always done as much as possible myself-I build my own arrows, tune my own bows, mount my own scopes, bed my own rifles, this rifle I just finished pillar bedding this morning and will follow with actual bedding. I am even considering picking up a combo lathe/milling machine?


Gary

 

[Clark]

I make my own action wrench and barrel vise. I measure over 500 foot pounds to get them off. Nothing that has not already been said here.... but I made a video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOjYro4w0Bc