Looking for a replacement vent rib for my Remington 600
annaj...@adelphia.net
condition except for a broken plastic vent rib. Does anyone know of a
source for these ribs? There is one on ebay now, but it seems pricey.
Thanks in advance to all who offer advice-----Jon H.
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Rubaiyat of Omar Bradley
# Does anyone know of a
# source for these ribs?
http://www.brownells.com/aspx/NS/store/ProductDetail.aspx?p=7144&title=REMINGTON+600+VENTILATED+RIB
John Cowart
sta...@prolynx.com
annaj...@adelphia.net wrote:
# Hi all. I just aquired a Remington 600 in .308 that is in excellent
# condition except for a broken plastic vent rib. Does anyone know of a
# source for these ribs? There is one on ebay now, but it seems pricey.
# Thanks in advance to all who offer advice-----Jon H.
#
#
Numrich/Gun Parts would be MY first stop. The 600 has been out of
print long enough that parts are kind of thin on the ground. It's kind
of funny, since the first thing a lot of guys would do when customizing
a 600 was to rip the rib off. Never have seen one in .308.
Stan
annaj...@adelphia.net
the little cylindrical lugs that the mounting screwws thread into? They
are made right onto the barrel. I could cut them off, but How would I
make it look like they were never there??
On Dec 27, 2:26 pm, sta...@prolynx.com wrote:
> ...
Rubaiyat of Omar Bradley
# I'd love to loose the rib on my Remington 600, but how would I remove
# the little cylindrical lugs that the mounting screwws thread into? They
# are made right onto the barrel.
I'm 99.99% sure that those lugs are not integrally machined into the
barrel. Check them with some optical magnification and see if there is
a seam between them and the barrel. They are most likely silver
soldered on, or screwed into a tapped hole.
John Cowart
David Norris
"Rubaiyat of Omar Bradley" <cowar...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:en36ba$be2$1...@grapevine.wam.umd.edu...
| annaj...@adelphia.net wrote:
| # I'd love to loose the rib on my Remington 600, but how would I remove
| # the little cylindrical lugs that the mounting screwws thread into? They
| # are made right onto the barrel.
|
| I'm 99.99% sure that those lugs are not integrally machined into the
| barrel. Check them with some optical magnification and see if there is
| a seam between them and the barrel. They are most likely silver
| soldered on, or screwed into a tapped hole.
|
| John Cowart
Actually they are welded on. You can knock them off with a hammer and a
punch. Sometimes they will tear a little metal out of the top of the
barrel. Most will be able to be filed down and sanded to where they don't
show, but maybe not all. It's a crap shoot. I have removed them from a 600
and a 660. sand down final finish with 600 wet or dry paper shoe shine
fashion will pretty well match the factory finish and then you can cold
blue.
David Norris
sta...@prolynx.com
annaj...@adelphia.net wrote:
# I'd love to loose the rib on my Remington 600, but how would I remove
# the little cylindrical lugs that the mounting screwws thread into? They
# are made right onto the barrel. I could cut them off, but How would I
# make it look like they were never there??
#
# On Dec 27, 2:26 pm, sta...@prolynx.com wrote:
# > ...
#
#
I think one of the steel/aluminum rib replacements would probably be
best from a looks standpoint, if a little hard on the budget. If I
wanted to get rid of the posts, I'd use a Dremel cutting disk to trim
them down to nubs, then carefully file flush, draw file the whole
barrel, then use wet or dry to restore the polish. Would be a lot of
hand work, probably more than the gun is worth if you had to have a
gunsmith do it. Takes skill to hand polish a barrel that way. If you
don't have previous experience, cold-bluing that large an area will
make it look like some disease took hold. There's the Belgian Blue
that Herter's used to hawk, it works well for small jobs like that and
all it takes is a trough of boiling water the length of the action and
barrel. Brownell's carries it. If you've got two hands, it doesn't
take a whole lot of skill, either, to card off the residue from each
coat. Takes an afternoon and gives a very nice looking and
hard-wearing true blue job. If yu don't like the loks of it, drop it
back in the water again, fish it out and give it another coat. If you
want to develop gunsmithing skills, this might be the project to do it.
Stan
sta...@prolynx.com
annaj...@adelphia.net wrote:
# I'd love to loose the rib on my Remington 600, but how would I remove
# the little cylindrical lugs that the mounting screwws thread into? They
# are made right onto the barrel. I could cut them off, but How would I
# make it look like they were never there??
#
# On Dec 27, 2:26 pm, sta...@prolynx.com wrote:
# > ...
#
#
I think one of the steel/aluminum rib replacements would probably be
best from a looks standpoint, if a little hard on the budget. If I
wanted to get rid of the posts, I'd use a Dremel cutting disk to trim
them down to nubs, then carefully file flush, draw file the whole
barrel, then use wet or dry to restore the polish. Would be a lot of
hand work, probably more than the gun is worth if you had to have a
gunsmith do it. Takes skill to hand polish a barrel that way. If you
don't have previous experience, cold-bluing that large an area will
make it look like some disease took hold. There's the Belgian Blue
that Herter's used to hawk, it works well for small jobs like that and
all it takes is a trough of boiling water the length of the action and
barrel. Brownell's carries it. If you've got two hands, it doesn't
take a whole lot of skill, either, to card off the residue from each
coat. Takes an afternoon and gives a very nice looking and
hard-wearing true blue job. If yu don't like the looks of it, drop it
back in the water again, fish it out and give it another coat. If you
want to develop gunsmithing skills, this might be the project to do it.
Stan