deadbird Posted June 24, 2006 Posted June 24, 2006 Has anyone out there ever tried to remove the mag. tube from their Benelli. End of season cleaning needs to have this done, I feel. All kinds of crap ends up in there,[sticks, bits of leaves, condensation] I finally got the dam thing off, after 2 phone calls to the company. I was just wondering if anyone else has tried. Quote
Remy Posted June 24, 2006 Posted June 24, 2006 I am curious about magazine removal myself. Does anyone have experience with this? Quote
rjk Posted June 24, 2006 Posted June 24, 2006 Yep, just did it the other day on my M-4. After taking the barrel, bolt and trigger guard off, I first took my GF's hairdryer to it with no affect. It gets hot as **** (reciever and mag tube), but it isn't enough heat to "break" the loctite. I must have heated it for 30min, put an old engine tube (sliced down the middle) to protect the mag tube and used vice grips. Didn't move a mm. Just a waste of time. I decided to take the hair dryer approach even though it was recommended to use a torch or heat gun. I figured I wanted to use the least amount of heat, so I didn't FUBAR my new toy So...I tried a butane torch next...the one I use for my crack pipe (kidding). You know the cooking kind. I don't know abt your SG, but mine has a hex nut looking thing that the mag tube screws into...so I heated that area for abt 2-3 min at first, put some gloves on and wedged the reciever between my legs and tuurrrrned...nope, not hot enough yet. Tried again after a few more min. of heat and bingo, it slowly started to unscrew. I cleaned up the area with a brush (loctite just flakes off), reapplied blue loctite, and put my one piece extended mag tube on. Hope this helps, Rob Quote
jmikesteen Posted June 24, 2006 Posted June 24, 2006 Heat gun 30 seconds unscrews with the hand (at the far end) tube get very hot. Quote
jmikesteen Posted June 24, 2006 Posted June 24, 2006 For real, it can blister the skin 5 seconds after turning it on, maybe sooner, I take my hand away 3 seconds after cold start. You have to be very carefull where you lay it after use. [ 06-24-2006, 01:59 PM: Message edited by: jmikesteen ] Quote
Duggan Posted June 24, 2006 Posted June 24, 2006 Originally posted by jmikesteen: Heat gun 30 seconds unscrews with the hand (at the far end) tube get very hot. Indeed. Quote
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