Barrel Vise Rosin, home made

Lebel

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Any one konw of a homemade recipies for rosin. I guess I could by the brownells but stuff but for all those with a barrel vise, have you figured out some other easly found fill-in.
 
Recipe for rosin, is as follows.

Into a container, put Rosin.

Sorry, had to. :D

Get some from the local gym. It's used in the weight room. Like as not, the place where the weightlifters get their supplements from has some too.
You can also get it from a music supplies outfit.
Ever heard the expression "rosin the bow"? They use it on the bows used to play violins, and all that style instrument.

Dry pine pitch, or other pitch chunks from a coniferous tree = rosin. Well, sorta. If you need to save a buck, it'll work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosin

Cheers
Trev
 
Lebel said:
Any one konw of a homemade recipies for rosin. I guess I could by the brownells but stuff but for all those with a barrel vise, have you figured out some other easly found fill-in.
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Please do not laugh, I use 2x4" "post it" notes around the barrel. 2 layers will fillin the gap and create a far better grip than Rosin and is easier to clean up.
It really does work.
 
Rosin, formerly called colophony or Greek pitch (Pix græca), is a solid form of resin obtained from pines and some other plants, mostly conifers, produced by heating fresh liquid resin to vaporize the volatile liquid terpene components. It is semi-transparent and varies in color from yellow to black. At room temperature rosin is brittle, but it melts at stove-top temperatures. It chiefly consists of different resin acids, especially abietic acid.

I bought my pound of rosin from Brownells 35 years ago and I still have lots... I use it all the time... in the barrel vice and inside scope rings. It cleans off really easy with lacquer thinner.
 
sunray said:
None is needed. Use the right sized bushing.
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Realistically that would mean make a new bushing for just about every barrel you take off or install... the rosin covers a lot of ground and makes a poor taper fit better, a slightly large diameter bushing fit the smaller barrel...

Any new barrel I install will always have a barrel turned to a specific size... 1.250, 1.200, 1.175, 1.150, etc... it is some of the weird factory contours or custom contours that get me...
 
I used quick dry Loktite for Luger barrels. Heat the barrel bushing to about 150 degrees at a guess for it to release. In reply to Sunray, you could not tighten the bushing enough to grip the barrel without it slipping.

cheers mooncoon
 
I bought a small rosin bag for baseball at a local sports store.
My home made barrel vice didnt work out so good so I just welded a big nut on the barrel, stuck it in the vice and it came right off.

( barrel was junk anyways )
 
I make my barrel blocks out of gum wood (very hard & dense) add a little rosin, Works like a charm, wood machines like it was metal.
 
go to a western shop and ask them
its about 30 bucks a pound
its used on bull ropes or bronc saddles
violin rosin is wicked but its also wicked expensive
 
When I took the barrel off my Ross, there was no Knox Form or straight section at the base of the barrel. I bored a hole in a piece of 1.5" plate, as near as possible to the widest part of the barrel, then split it bisecting the hole. I then used brass shim stock & Green Loctite (bearing mount) to make up the difference. It did the job fine, in the hydraulic press.
 
A friend of mine swears by using business cards for that last little amount of grip. I suspect any good cardstock would do the trick.

In fact, I gotta do that myself here shortly ......................
 
I have not had occasion to try it yet but an older gunsmith I met at a gunshow told me to get the barrel off of Lee Enfields he used a wrap of the open screen abrasive cloth used to sand sheet-rock. Said he did not have to make a releif cut when he used this material.
 
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