Removing a loctite bedded barrel

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I have been working on the AR platform since the late 70's. I look at mistakes as tuition cost for learning, needless to say I have had plenty of expense along the way. That said, I learn something new all the time.

Feel free to add this experience of mine, at least anecdotally, to your lexicon. "This one guy Loctited his gas block entirely onto his barrel...."

I can't recall why I chose to use the claw hammer in lieu of my ballpeen or even my plastic covered dead-blow hammer. Might have been because it's a little lighter than the ballpeen and I was trying to be precise in the angle and force of the blows. I was trying very hard not to ding up my barrel during that procedure. I was nearly successful. I could have wrapped the barrel in cardboard, like cereal box grade. But then I could not have heated the GB with a torch.