Can you shorten chrome lined barrels?

[Teac]

I worry as if you cut the barrel the chrome may start coming off where its cut. This would be for a SxS shotgun with chrome lined barrels.

Is it ok to cut those guns? I will have a gun smith do it

cheers

Matt

 

[Blastattack]

I doubt any gunsmith will touch it. Gunsmiths have enough trouble cutting chrome-lined single-barrels, let alone trying to do a double. It's not hard to do, but it requires some specialized and very expensive (for your average gunsmith) tools to achieve a decent result. You can't cut it nice and square with a hacksaw and then finish it with a file.

 

[guntech]

It can be done but finishing the crown is a bit of work... a belt sander to start and then abrasive paper on a flat piece of steel. The barrel steel works easily, it's the hard edge of chrome at the bore that is difficult. Live with however it turns out... it isn't a big deal if it isn't perfect. It will not affect the shooting of it.

 

[gunrunner8]

I never done it myself (cutting chrome lined barrels) but friend of mine used zip-cut disk in his mitre cut off saw, used diamond knife sharpener to polish the cut and large ball stone in his air grinder to clean inside the barrel sharp burrs. I say after cold blueing the job looked quite good.

 

[Winz]

Chromelined barrels can be done. I would say that the chop itself isn't the hard part and can be done by a hand hack saw. It is the crowning part that is hard to get done nicely and takes attention to prevent flaking (probably best on a lathe with carbide cutters).

 

[*MALICE*]

If when cutting a chrome lined barrel the chrome starts 'flaking off', the application of chrome was done wrong and could have started 'flaking off' without being cut.

Hard chroming is not the same as soft chrome (the type you would see on the bumper of a 57 chevy)

 

[Teac]

thanks everybody! Looks like its probably not worth to undertake this .... Sadly, the gun I want comes with too long barrels