Over clocked 686 barrel repair?

[Cherokeewind]

I would appreciate suggestions of who to send a 686 to for a perfect repair of an over clocked bbl.  Would probably also want the forcing cone checked and corrected if needed.

 

Thanks

Jim

[Toolguy]

Clark Custom would be my first guess.

[ysrracer]

When you say over clocked, does that mean turned on too far? Can't it just be unscrewed one 12,000th of a turn?

[Toolguy]

It can, but you have to have the right frame wrench. That's a 10 minute fix, including getting set up.

[Cherokeewind]

But for a one time job, the frame wrenches aren't cheap........

[pskys2]

8 hours ago, Cherokeewind said:

But for a one time job, the frame wrenches aren't cheap........

Many have used a the wooden handle of a hammer.  The more critical part is holding the barrel in the vise so it doesn't get scratched up!

Any good Revolver Smith, TK, Clark, Pinnacle, Toolguy...

[Cherokeewind]

I have actually used that technique years ago to re barrel a Python and it worked well.

 

One concern for me is "Will the bbl. be tight enough after I back it out that 12,000th of an inch."

 

Actually, with the Python, I clamped the frame in a big vise, between two pieces of soft pine which were padded with towel material, and used a well padded wrench to remove the bbl. and replace with the shorter bbl.

 

Worked well with no problems. 

Edited January 3, 2022 by Cherokeewind

[Toolguy]

It usually will be, but if not, you can just Loctite it and be good to go. For non magnum loads, even blue works fine.

[ysrracer]

12 hours ago, Cherokeewind said:

 

One concern for me is "Will the bbl. be tight enough after I back it out that 12,000th of an inch."

 

 

I'm not a machinist, how many thousandths are in an inch ?

 

[Distant Thunder]

6 minutes ago, ysrracer said:

 

I'm not a machinist, how many thousandths are in an inch ?

 

 

That's easy. A bunch. Duh!

[Toolguy]

It is an inch divided into 1000 equal increments. It is expressed as a decimal as .001 or as a fraction as 1/1000. A sheet of copier paper is about .004 or 4/1000 of an inch thick.

Edited January 4, 2022 by Toolguy

[ysrracer]

11 hours ago, Toolguy said:

It is an inch divided into 1000 equal increments. It is expressed as a decimal as .001 or as a fraction as 1/1000. A sheet of copier paper is about .004 or 4/1000 of an inch thick.

 

It was a joke. An engineer I worked with told me that if I asked a bunch of people in our office, "how many thousandths are in an inch", I'd get a bunch of crazy answers.

 

So I did. I got, "I'm not good at math" , "I'd have to figure it out", and my favorite, " thousandths of what?"

[Toolguy]

Ha! I missed the joke part. At least now a few more people know the answer.