Muzzle break --- Brake, Broke, Broken, Busted

[Hogpatrol]

The other reason for taking the suppressor with you is that: with modern CNC cutting instead of using a tap, there is no way of knowing what kind of thread is on the suppressor. There is an Airgun maker in a Southern U.S. state, possibly Texas, who once worked for Theoben in England. He makes high end PCP rifles and makes a point of advertising the use of taps and dies by him and his staff because that ensures quality and consistency. Given the pressures his air rifles can be run at, any sensible person would want that attention to quality. The same applies when attaching a suppressor to a centrefire hunting rifle which obviously operates at significantly higher pressures.

Taps and dies are not precision cutting tools. CNC cut threads, either internal or external, can be dead nuts cut to any classification. I would not want a rifle with muzzle threads that were cut with a die nor a brake or silencer with a tap. Same goes for the breech end.

 

[ZG47]

Taps and dies are not precision cutting tools. CNC cut threads, either internal or external, can be dead nuts cut to any classification. I would not want a rifle with muzzle threads that were cut with a die nor a brake or silencer with a tap. Same goes for the breech end.

I suggest that you take a few deep breaths and (with all due respect) actually read what I typed.

My point being, that: quality control has a tendency to be all over the place with CNC. I am well aware that lathe and multifunction CNC cutting is the way to go for certain work BUT gunsmiths want to have the suppressor to hand so that they can check the threads themselves.

Anyone who has been working with tools and using machined threads over the last forty to fifty years will know that there has been an overall quality decline in some production, since digital CNC became mainstream. You still have to set up, test and check production on a regular basis. The threads and simple i.e., uncomplicated mating surfaces, on some moulded plastic components have been all over the place with items made in the last decade or so (and the injection dies are supposed to have been made by tool makers). Yes, I know that so-called ‘cooling times’ can be a factor but that only goes so far in terms of quality issues. Idleness will always sabotage technology improvements.

Have a good week and festive break.

 

[Woodcarver]

What can be learnt from this topic is following:
When you have muzzle break, remove it evrey time after shooting, and clean the threads.
When you have a threaded cap on top of barrel, remove it every time after shooting, and clean the threads.
When you have a supressor on the barrel, remove it every time after shooting, and clean the threads.

When you have removable chokes, on shotgun, same as above.
Otherwise, the question as this may arise. Now, only solution is: to take it to gunsmith.

Wait!?! What?!? You're supposed to clean shotguns?! WTH!!

 

[Bert the Turtle]

Is there any chance of it being a left-hand thread?

 

[Dawg2019]

Gunsmith had it for roughly 24 hours, problem solved. I took it home and fired a few test shots with the suppressor, sounds awesome. I usually like fixing things myself, but this was $29 well spent.