Jungle Carbine

Beater said:
anyone have any tips on removeing a JC front sight/ flashhider? dont matter what i do, i cant seem to get the pins to move
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I went throught that nightmare once. The pins are tapered! I broke 3 punches pushing them out the wrong way! (don't ask me which way was right, I forget)

It's a ##### of a job. I recommend forgetting about it. They weren't intended to be removed.
 
yea, i knew they were tapered, im pritty sure they go left to right. got a nice carbine with a buggered up flash hider, and want to replace it.
 
I replaced one a couple of years ago that was cut with one from a buggered barrel.

I couldn't drive the pins out either and ended up having to mount it in a drill press and drill them out with an under sized bit. I used a titanium bit IIRC as the pins would eat a regular HSS one.
 
From just taking a quick look at mine, and trying to measure the pin size on both sides, it does appear smaller on the left side than what it is on the right. I'd say punch from the left to the right.

A word of caution using needle bearing rollers as a punch in a press, they are high carbon steel and as such very hard and can, if used wrong, shatter. Safety glasses are a must.
 
well, yea, it would be easy to do, but the bbl its on is nice still, so didnt really want to do that. it has an apointment with the mill tomorow.
 
Fortunately the pins are usually softer than the bbl. or flash hider, so if punches and heat won't get them out you can....get a brass rod just large enough to fit through the muzzle aperture on the flash hider, place the backside of the FH in the blocks of your(?) hydraulic press, with the action hanging below, place the rod against the face of the muzzle and press the bbl. down out of the FH. You'll need new pins, but that should be easy to arrange. New FH you'd better have in hand first.
 
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