Eval FM trying new VL

[artjr338wm]

Forgot to add at my last range session, I tried out one of the new vent liners I bought from Lehigh bullets. Worked perfectly and shot close to the same POI save for a shift of 1" to the right at 100yrds.

But it is most worth listing is this:
I used a method I learned here of first wrapping the vent liner in Teflon tape then applying 2 drops of REMoil before tightening it in the breach plug only hand tight. After firing 27 shots I removed the breach plug and tried to remove the Vent Liner with a Allen key. It came loose with little effort I am happy to report.

Glad I do not have to use any Anti-seize as it is a true PITA to use and clean off.

Arthur.

[Richard]

Sounds good Art!
Richard
(kind of "fiddley" getting the tape on that short length of screw, no?) ;D

[DBinNY]

I know we've beat around what is necessary and not necessary to keep vents and breech plugs from sticking. I guess I'm still a sissy when it comes to all of this because I still use the tin man messy stuff on both. I guess my main concern is when you leave it in the gun for an extended period of time, shoot it, reload and so on as I do during the deer season. I have never stuck either. Now that I have the third pillar and the action is bedded I wouldn't be at all skeptical about servicing the plug between shots during the season but not everybody has that option. It is good to see folks trying different things and succeeding.

[Dave W]

A couple blasts of brake cleaner will clean the antisieze off a plug and vent with no problem. Someone mentioned using it in the barrel, but I never tried it. I imagine that stuff would eat the finish off a scope or stock quickly.

DB I'll probably jinx myself or someone by posting this, but my buddy left his plug in for nearly a year with nothing but Rem Oil on the plug threads. Came out with no problem and I snug them fairly tight. It did have Nevr-Sieze on the vent though.

[boarhog]

If I remember right, most brake cleaner is something like 1-1-1 Trichloroethylene. Not really corrosive. It is a very good degreaser. We use it in a hot vapor degreaser to wash off brass musical instruments before spraying them with bake-on epoxy lacquer. It might hurt a polyethylene finish on a stock, or a plastic stock, so you should probably remove the action first, or carefully spray from the breech end, or do what I do, spray some cleaner on a shotgun patch and brush and use it on a chamber rod to clean the BP threads.

I have been wondering about something else though. Are the scope lens coatings on the inside surfaces, or outside? If they are on the outside surface, solvents might damage the coatings. We'll have to get Rossman to quote chapter and verse on that!