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[shadycon]

Question; If it is soldered on , can it be warmed up and remove? Then replaced?

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[vintage hunter]

No, not warmed up, heated up and yes they could be but you really don't want to do that. They were silver soldered on, different process to lead based soldering, this would require heating the barrel/cylinder cherry red to attach or remove it. Not something you'd want to do under normal circumstances as it would likely require the whole barrel to be heat treated to remove stress. I've seen some replacement gas cylinders that were said to have made by Iver Johnson and were leftover when they ceased producing the .30 carbines. They were'nt the band type like seen on USGI barrels and on the IJ carbine I had they were silver soldered in place.