CLOSED Faxon 20" 65G Group Buy

[win.308stealth]

Any of you MN guys visit John @ Gunstop in Excelsior?

[BluntForceTrauma]

Visited Gunstop once with Steve Satern few years ago. Is he still in business?

[win.308stealth]

Last time I was in the cities, he was still there last spring. If someone's getting into reloading, I would suggest visiting him.

[sneaky one]

Yes, My Forster dies were purchased from there for the Grrr, in '09. $ 89.99 IIRC- recession was on-

Nicest guys in a gun shop ever. Awesome website too... Gunstop

Excelsior blvd- sound right ?

[win.308stealth]

Yep, that's the place. Got my dies and first batch of brass back in '09 also.

[Bradpierson26]

I'm moving in October so if we could make this happen, that'd be great

[hdrolling]

Something just seems to be missing......

IMG_8995 (1) by hd_rolling, on Flickr

[bj139]

Great photo, hdrolling.

Nathan, from Faxon, asked on the 12" group buy thread how the builds were going and someone replied it is hard to start a build without a barrel.

Are you going to locktite the barrel extension into the receiver first thing?

[hdrolling]

Great photo, hdrolling.

Nathan, from Faxon, asked on the 12" group buy thread how the builds were going and someone replied it is hard to start a build without a barrel.

Are you going to locktite the barrel extension into the receiver first thing?

Right now I plan to see how the fit is, still researching the "locktite" theory. I've seen and read about using red, blue, green, loctite 620 etc. but If I have a good fit I'm just going to let the barrel nut do the work. I've read that AA uses the red, won't know until I get everything together.

[mongoosesnipe]

I use blue locktite on all my builds to bed the barrel to the receiver to take up any slack and prevent any potential galling and use automotive antisieze on the receiver threads, i like the blue locktite because it tightens things up and fills any gaps while being relatively easy to get the barrel out without the use of heat if i am so inclined it just requires tapping on the barrel extension with a wooden dowel and a hammer

[Bradpierson26]

Hdrolling, your build looks like mine

[sneaky one]

hdrolling- I use the surface insensitive blue permatex- 24300 IIRC, or 243 Loctite- use a lt, then mop up later. Seems to help...

[Bowhntr6pt]

Correct. We still have to laser engrave and we are doing double-secret probation level Q/C checking on them!

Well...? Any update?

Since you're leaving Faxon next week perhaps you can at least fill us in on the status of the 20" barrels.

[bj139]

Right now I plan to see how the fit is, still researching the "locktite" theory. I've seen and read about using red, blue, green, loctite 620 etc. but If I have a good fit I'm just going to let the barrel nut do the work. I've read that AA uses the red, won't know until I get everything together.

I used blue loctite on one barrel and before I did, I cleaned everything with brake cleaner. It required quite a bit of pounding to remove the barrel when I needed to remove it. If I had used red Loctite, I think a torch may have been necessary.

With a replacent barrel, I used no Loctite and just tightened the barrel nut to 40 ft-lbs. After shooting a few times I decided to take it apart and Loctite it and the nut required very little force to loosen. This time, I just wiped it with paper towels and no used brake cleaner and applied Loctite and tightened to 40 ft-lbs.

[AZHTfreak]

I use blue locktite on all my builds to bed the barrel to the receiver to take up any slack and prevent any potential galling and use automotive antisieze on the receiver threads, i like the blue locktite because it tightens things up and fills any gaps while being relatively easy to get the barrel out without the use of heat if i am so inclined it just requires tapping on the barrel extension with a wooden dowel and a hammer

Permatex 24300 bedding / upper truing on all my builds REALLY makes them as accurate as mechanically possible... And yes, I've also had 0 problems busting a bedded barrel from an upper in a vice block with a wooden dowel + a BIG hammer... Only issue (not really an issue since it it's BETTER mechanically IMHO) i've had with my past 4 AP uppers, is that they're so bloody tight dimensionally , I've no choice but to freeze the barrel and oven the upper @ 250F to do a thermal fit... Gotta skip barrel bedding and truing the upper as the tool is too large to use. I'm very consistently sub-MOA @ 100 yds w/ factory loads with either method using any cartridge :-)