Removing buggered screw...

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Big Jon

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Have an older (1970's) Win. M94 in 30-30 that I was going to use as a project gun and as a beater for on the quad and camping trips, etc. I was going to refinish the wood. Now here comes the problem. When I went to remove the magazine plug screw, I eneded up damaging the screw head. (wasn't really surprised it was going to be "in there") No biggie I thought. Just drill into it a bit and use an extractor. Did that, and the screw is now just stripping my extractors, without even budging. Any ideas on how to get this stubborn screw out?

oh yeah...when I first started I tried letting some penetrant soak in for a while, and that didn't do anything to help. I didn't trying heating it up though.
 
With a thin hack saw blade, you can cut off the screw where it acts as a pin in the bottom of the barrel. That will allow you to remove the magazine from the rifle.
Careful work with a dremel tool to shorten the screw ends will allow you to remove the magazine plug.
Now, with the plug removed, you can heat the plug all you want, drill or whatever to get the screw out, and failing that, just get another plug.
Been there, I got the screw out, but I heated the plug to a straw colour before I did.
 
Thanks, I have an extra mag plug screw already so sawing it apart won't be too bad. I am a little concerned with using an extractor to get the thread part of the old screw out of the barrel though. (Is that how you got the thread part out?)
 
If it strips the extractor, there is still too much tension. Can you bore it out more and use the next size extractor? I've found using a drill just smaller than the base of the threads works best. Too small and there is too much meat left for the extractor to overcome. You want just the threads left behind and it should pop right out. A bit of localised heat may help too...

Good luck!
 
Max Power said:
If it strips the extractor, there is still too much tension. Can you bore it out more and use the next size extractor? I've found using a drill just smaller than the base of the threads works best. Too small and there is too much meat left for the extractor to overcome. You want just the threads left behind and it should pop right out. A bit of localised heat may help too...

Good luck!
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X2... drill it out as close to the threads as you can get, then use the appropriate sized extractor.
 
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