Jammed Patch

i cant fit anything into the barrel, otherwise that would have been my first idea, its only .17 HMR, so the cleaning cable takes up most of the room. Thanks for the idea though
 
Machine one end of a piece of heavy tubing to fit snugly over about an inch of the muzzle. The tubing must be long enough to also fit over the cable.

Clean the muzzle and the machined tubing with brake cleaner, and let the parts dry thoroughly.

Epoxy the machined end to the muzzle of the rifle. You know where to go from here right?

If compressed air won't remove it, then fit a cap and a grease nipple over the other end. It will come out for sure with a grease gun! :cool:

Once you have it removed, just heat the tubing over the muzzle until the epoxy softens up and remove the tubing.

Clean the epoxy off the muzzle and keep the tubing so you will have it for the next time. :D

Ted
 
I feel for you. I did the same thing with a .223 at the end of a gopher shoot. I was able to reach in with a pair of forceps and pull the patch out the breach. For the .17 I'd try a small pencil flame torch (one of the butane things from princess auto to burn enough patch that it will pull through. When that fails, all I can think of is cutting the cable as close to the muzzle as is possible and use the water idea. If the barrel is full of water it shouldn't take much to push the patch out.
 
Do you have access to oxygen or acetylen-oxygen torches?
Put the firearm, muzzle down, into a padded vice; put some lighter fluid inside that chamber.
Light the fluid up, then, using the torch, flow pure oxygen only on that flame. It will burn very fast then the cotton of the patch will char and burn brightly until there is nothing left but ashes.
Pull on your cable, it should slide out. You may put a weight at the end of the cable before burning the patch and gravity will pull it out.
Be careful and good luck!
PP.:)
 
medicman5555 said:
looks like there is no even remotely easy fix for this, off to the gunsmith i go i guess
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Okay, then, the second (easy) way is to do the same thing using heavy rubber hose and hose clamps.

I'm serious. It works! The metal tubing method is a little more sophisticated and works on the first try. Using the hose may take a few tries before the patch will come out, because the hose slips on the barrel.

Give it a try!

Ted
 
I would have thought the air gun muzzle to muzzle would have worked for you since you could just puch the cable back into the muzzle of the air gun. You could put a hose over the joint if you can't hold it in the vice well enough for a good seal.

Be real careful with the o2 and the flame idea!! I have visions of you cutting into the chamber with that.
 
I still think burning this patch out is the safest and easiest method available to you. Heat the end of a coat hanger wire to the point of being red hot (held with vice grips) and carefully poke at the patch until you've burned enough of the material away to pull through, might take a few heatings of the wire but you should be out obliterating gophers in no time...take a day off work to make up for lost time.

whatguns? out!
 
A friend brought by the exact same thing the other day. Using vise grips, we pulled on the cable until it broke off at the cable/jag end. (original intent was to pull it thru the patch but the cable broke off at the jag end fitting/clamp). Then we used 3 pc of Shooting Chrony aliminum rods (for the sun screens) to push the jag out from the muzzle end since we did not have a real 17 cal rod. This worked fine and the guy bought a real 17 cal Dewey rod after.
 
I really don't think burning is going to work...not enough air gets down there to get an efficienct burn happening...

At hobby stores they sell small diameter brass tubing...which I invision you could fit over the pull-thru and tap the patch out the way it came.

Also if it is stuck in that good, commpressed air from a normal compressor is not going to do it either. Maybe 120psi I don't think it will have enough force.

Just my $.02 anyway

Nic

Oh...maybe bleach would do the trick...it eats holes in cotton, I have some jeans that prove it. I don't think it would harm the bore? Anyone comment on that.
 
You would probably want to neutralize the bleach after eating the patch. I don't know what to use for that, but I think the bore will rust quickly otherwise. Any chemists around to help?
The hot coat hanger may be slow, but it might work.

Is brass tubing available small enough to fit a .17 bore and still fit over the otis cable? That might be enough to push the patch back. It won't take much movement to free it up.
 
Well thank you all for the suggestions. I went to a hobby store to try for the brass tubing, no dice, everything that they had that small wouldnt allow the otis cable to fit, i brought another otis cable to try it out. I think ill try the hot hanger method, then try to break the cable at the jag. the only thing that concerns me, is that knowing my luck, that cable will break half way, then im really done for. the only thing i have with the coat hanger, is damaging my chamber. Or maybe im just being a big chicken, who knows? I'll report back, but comments are appreciated
 
It took me a while to think of this...why not check with the folks at otis. Maybe they've had enough of this to know how to back up.

http://www.otisgun.com/

Firearms related businesses seem to have pretty good service, and someone there may have worthwhile insight.
 
same problem different caliber

Hi guys,

This should be good for some sh// and gigles. Buddy showed up yesterday with his 22mag. Seems he shoved a patch wrapped around a brush down the tube on one of those 20piece crappy tire rods so now there is a section of rod the patch and brush stuck about 3/4 down the barell. Any sugestions on how to solve this one. The gas idea sound good will give it a try anything else would be great though.:confused:
 
Unscrew the rod from the brush, then apply any of the above methods.

My favorite is this: Put the .22 in a vice, place a co'2 pellet gut muzle to muzzle, wrap the joint with 5 or 6 layers of duct tape, and start pullung the trigger. Warm CO'2 sits at 770-800 PSI, might just to the trick!

Apart from that, try pulling a slug out of a cart, empty the powder, and truy and shoot it out with the primer.....may work.

Ryan
 
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