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Posted: 1/22/2005 11:03:44 PM EDT
| do the threads need to be greased or anything special? Or do I just screw it down? |
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If you are using peel washers get the wifey's hair dryer and heat them up and they will separate easily. Pile on the proper amount of peels, trial and error. When you get it timed up, a drop of red Locktite is all you need. Crush washers. These are what we use most of the time. I crush them to within 1/8 of the final turn and then back them off. I degrease the FH and the thread with acetone or Gun Scrubber. Once again one drop of the Red and then I tighten the FH the rest of the way. Too much torque of the threads at the end of the muzzle can be degrade accuracy by distorting the last thing the bullet sees before leaving the barrel. On high end match barrels we machine fit the flash hider and just use Red Locktite to hold the FH in place. Denny |
| I like to use peel washers and a little red loc-tite after the trial and error part of having it indexed right,plus you dont have to tourque it down as hard as with a crush washer.You may have to use a barrel vise to crank it down right on a crushwasher.Just make sure the threads are clean and dry. |
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