"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." -Benjamin Franklin
That's exactly where I saw that experiment, many years ago as a child.
After searching the web, I did come across one method that may actually work to drive it out.
Heat the end you are going to drive from with a match, torch, lighter enough to soften up the nylon and then start driving, or heat up the rod you are going to use to drive the snake out with.
Then there is the method that many machinist use to remove stuck pins/dowels/bearings etc. Fill one end with grease, then using a tight fitting dowel apply pressure to that grease with light taps etc, the hydraulic pressure may force it out.
Though I'm still not opposed to trying a homemade blank to try and remove the snake either.
OP:
Take a torch lighter (Or equivalent)…
Burn the end of the bore snake. Kind of roll the melted nylon with your fingers a bit (Wait till its cool enough you don't burn yourself). Don't flatten it out, you want to keep it as thick as you can. Take a pair of vice grips, attach vice grips to the melted bore snake end, and pull. You need to make sure the vice grips are as tight as possible. Pull slow but steady.
Sorry, but the thought experiment involving sand is not accurate. Sand is a hard substance and it would be reasonable to think it could jam a drive rod. In the OP's situation there is no SAND, there is nothing harder than nylon cloth, the tail half of the BoreSnake. Also, the sand experiment would require the drive rod to be smaller enough than the bore to allow a grain of sand between them. If the drive rod nearly fills the bore than every grain is being forced down and not out against the bore.
Drive a near bore diameter rod through the bore and whatever is in there WILL be pushed out, guaranteed. And I bet dollars to donuts that is exactly what the gunsmith is doing right now, while chuckling about the easiest $30 he made this week. Suwannee Tim nailed it early on but that left no room for drama and desperation. Too simple to just do rather than post about how everything else was impossible. Like Tim said, with enough effort even the simple can be made difficult.
Last edited by NWPilgrim; 10-09-11 at 15:52.
I think the real benefit of my suggestion was not in the suggesting the drill rod but in suggesting a source, McMaster, where you can buy one stick of rod for four or five bux, no minimum and have it delivered for another four or five bux.
Can we get an update on this?
Just saw this, but the first thing I would do is find somebody with a high powered PCP air rifle. Modern Pre-Charged Pneumatic air rifles are capable of well over 100 FPE in .22 caliber. Big bore air rifles can produce ~ 1,000 FPE. I'd find the biggest, baddest one I could...place the barrel of the air rifle in the Noveske barrel extension and fire it (no pellet of course). I think that would do the trick.
I'd trust this before giving it to some local hack to butcher. Hopefully it all works out.
Last edited by a0cake; 10-24-11 at 18:25.
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