muzzle break take off how (M14 of course)

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Here it is sitting on my kitchen table. Brand new M14, just got it. And Sage stock right beside it. Any trick to take off muzzle break? Seemed like a simple thing except the thing will not budge. There was heat and some hammering to no avail. Am I missing something? Castle nut is slack of course. I do not see any silver solder - there must be some marks from solder if it was there but I cannot see any. Should I heat it up hotter?
 
Drilling was too finicky for me....just get a small sledge hammer, a large brass drift, mount in vice (pretect barrel) and after a few good wacks, the welds broke. I didn't want to damage my barrel by drilling.
 
Some welds will come loose very easily. Mine defied a box of new drill bits and a drill press. The solution was a Dremmel tool and a cylindrical grinder like you'd use to sharpen chainsaws. Press it in place and let the grit work through the steel. Once the flash suppressor was off (smite it periodically to break any lingering web, and show you were to keep going), the weld was easily dressed down with a flat file.

Good luck fitting the SAGE stock. They are an ingenious device, that takes a genious to devise how to install properly.
 
I took a dremel and a cutting wheel and cut the damn thing off. It's useless anyway, no one wants a flash hider without a bayo lug, hence why I took it off. Now my m-14 has a bayo lug :)
 
The SAGE stock has a different way of hanging the rifle inside the shell than the wood/fibreglass stock. Practically the whole rifle has to come apart to get it in properly.
 
I cut mines as well. The metal on two of them was too hard to drill, so I remembered seeing Savage's.... Dremel tool, wheel and two minutes later both flashiders were free. Is not as pretty as drilling, but more effective.
 
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