Is it fixable?
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HI. If the rib is metal, it can be silver soldered back on. Plastic can be re-glued. Doesn't look like it was ever securely attached though.
Your shotgun new/newish? As in still under warrantee? Baikal does have a shop in TO.
http://baikalcanada.com/contact.htm
Your shotgun new/newish? As in still under warrantee? Baikal does have a shop in TO.
http://baikalcanada.com/contact.htm
If that rib is metal, it's always been that way. I say that because the only two things that could cause it to be wedged up like that seem pretty unlikely to me.
From that picture, the ring around the chamber end of the barrel would have to be moving towards the muzzle, or the rib would have to be sliding back, to cause that effect. Check to see if the ring is loose. Should be able to see evidence of the ring sliding forwards, with the barrel removed. If the ring is integral with the barrel, that solves that.
There is no physical way, that those two parts ever fit together flush with that amount of change in direction of the rib.
A fine toothed hacksaw blade or jewelers saw blade and a little shim stock to protect the finish of the barrel from overshooting with the saw, and a bit of sandpaper and some blacking, and you could take that wow out of the rib. Provided that the rib is flexed, rather than bent. If the rib is actually bent, it will be a bit of an SOB of a job to get it straightened.
At this stage, sending it in for warranty work seem about on par with sending a car back outside warranty, because you found a bit of trim strip poorly installed. Probably not gonna accomplish much. Maybe you will get lucky on the 'workmanship' part of the guarantee, but if it were always like that, it should have been noticed earlier, and it does not affect safe function, as is, in my opinion. Provided that there is nothing moving around, right,.
But, investigate further, to see if anything is loose or moving around. My two bits is that it has been like that from the start.
Cheers
Trev
From that picture, the ring around the chamber end of the barrel would have to be moving towards the muzzle, or the rib would have to be sliding back, to cause that effect. Check to see if the ring is loose. Should be able to see evidence of the ring sliding forwards, with the barrel removed. If the ring is integral with the barrel, that solves that.
There is no physical way, that those two parts ever fit together flush with that amount of change in direction of the rib.
A fine toothed hacksaw blade or jewelers saw blade and a little shim stock to protect the finish of the barrel from overshooting with the saw, and a bit of sandpaper and some blacking, and you could take that wow out of the rib. Provided that the rib is flexed, rather than bent. If the rib is actually bent, it will be a bit of an SOB of a job to get it straightened.
At this stage, sending it in for warranty work seem about on par with sending a car back outside warranty, because you found a bit of trim strip poorly installed. Probably not gonna accomplish much. Maybe you will get lucky on the 'workmanship' part of the guarantee, but if it were always like that, it should have been noticed earlier, and it does not affect safe function, as is, in my opinion. Provided that there is nothing moving around, right,.
But, investigate further, to see if anything is loose or moving around. My two bits is that it has been like that from the start.
Cheers
Trev
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It hasn't been like that from the start.
It ripped of from the chamber side for about 50mm and getting longer. It can be set to its place by little force. But moving back since pressure released.
Is it possible to glue it with Locktite Black Max 380?
It ripped of from the chamber side for about 50mm and getting longer. It can be set to its place by little force. But moving back since pressure released.
Is it possible to glue it with Locktite Black Max 380?
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madtrapper143
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There is a cut in the barrel shoulder that allows the rib to be pressed back in place. As Kamlooky said if you use adhesive you can forget solder. If the joints were made very clean auto body shops have very good metal epoxies. Apply and squeeze the barrel and rib together in a padded vice. Looks like comrade Baikal used an epoxy originally.
Darryl
Darryl
I'm not going to solder it. It will be cheaper to buy a new gun.
