Removing #5 flash hider

[Brian Dick]

It's not exact as the heads are near flush. I get .100 right and .085 left. Driven in right to left.

[blurrededge]

My pins are ground flush but one has started to wiggle out a thou or two on the right hand side, so inserted from the right.
I'm away to find a centre punch and hammer!

[Roger Payne]

Cheers for the info chaps.

[Peter Laidler]

I am such a bloody dipstick........... Here I am sat on a brand new/unused flash eliminator and a set of taper reamers and all I had to do was think about it!.............. Sorry chaps

[Simon P]

The few times I have had to take these flash hiders off to repair the bayonet lugs, the pins came out alright but the flash hiders were very very tight, possibly shrunk on.

[Peter Laidler]

They were fairly tight but we had a fly or hydraulic press, a support jig for the back of the F/E and a brass (or was it nickel ?) insert to sit onto and protect the barrel against the load of the hydraulic piston or fly press. Just one little tweak and off they'd pop.

[Simon P]

Exactly same Principe I used a Arbour Press with a brass mandrel to protect the barrel, even still they were still very tight.