Replacing Shotgun Beads

[Scragbait]

Hello

I'm working through my backlog of minor gun repairs and there's two small jobs I want to knock off. I have two single-shot shotguns: a Cooey M84 .410 and a Baikal IJ18 12ga. Both barrels are missing beads. Two questions:

- Where can I find beads for each of these? Are the threads universal or do I need a Baikal bead specifically?

- Do they just screw in or are they staked? How tight and what do you use to wrench them?

Neither gun is a collector's item so buying compatible after-market works fine for me but I'd like sources for original parts if you know of any.

Thanks.

 

[Duck_Hunter]

I've done them using a drop of red lock tite and padded pliers so the bead isn't marked

 

[marshall]

The cooey is imperial, the other will be metric thread?
Any gubsmith shop in your area will know- take the barrel in
would be the best. I have made these, but better to buy the beads

 

[Wendell]

Brownells has both the proper tools and an assortment of replacement beads.

 

[Stewienb]

If you replace these and dont get it flush with the inside of the barrel, when you send a slug through it, it will blow the bead off.
Dont know about the baikal, but the cooey is threaded. ive jsut treaded in a new one with red loctite and with the dremmil, touch the inside of the barrel up.

 

[struff55]

Tap each one out to6-48 thread and reinstall new bead , 6-48 beads are easy to find .