before Xmas I bought a .177 and .22 Chaser kit on sale
and was able to remove the .22 LDC with a little heat and two pair of special protective pliers
now the .177 is another store all together have tried 3 or 4 times to get the LDC off no luck and feeling the damage caused is going to worse then the lack of being to remove it I'm at a loss on how to proceed
so yesterday I had the barrel in a 6 inch vice in some nylon type barrel protectors, lot of heat from a hair drier no luck
so how best to clean front to back, back to front
again for me the gluing of these LDC on is over the top and if you can't get it off the pistol can't use the factory LDC
oh I can make one, buy one, or buy an adapter or make one but the why is I have to is my question Lawyers is that the answer
so that's is where I'm at just 1 barrel to clean
On anything with an LDC, I leave it in place and use a drinking straw to guide a pull-thru type through the baffles. A piece of string trimmer line with one end cut sharp with a razor blade, the other end melted to a ball to capture a cotton patch. Feed it from breech end to the muzzle and through the straw.
got the dang LDC off, it just needed more heat
stuck a cooks pocket thermometer up the LDC and heated with a hair dryer to 140 degrees and it came off with my IPS wl-270s pliers but had to add the rubber palm of an atlas glove for more traction and a pair of IPS PH-200 on the barrel sight area
the key was more heat and the stuff they used just flakes off, kind of crusty and red in color
the straw idea might not have worked anyway
just a note I found the pistol barrels to be fairly clean the rifle barrels not so much very dirty
