I have a Marlin .22 Glenfield mod. 25 I need to replace the cartridge guide as it is broken. I have disassembled the gun and taken out the barrel pin but I can’t separate the barrel from the receiver so I can make the replacement. Does anyone know how to separate them? Any help would be great thanks.
Well there are a couple of things you can do. The first, quickest, dirtiest, and most likely to damage something is to spread your vice just wide enough to allow the barrel to slide thru but not the receiver and then holding onto the barrel ram the receiver into the vice and let momentum pull the barrel out of the receiver. The other method is to make a mandrel that fits thru the receiver and hits the back of the barrel. Make it big enough as to just slip thru the receiver and rest against the barrel. Clamp the receiver and drive the barrel off. Make sure your mandrel does not damage the edge of the chamber.
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Had another guy drill 2 holes like a figure 8 in an oak 2 x 4 that were just the barrel/mag tube diameter. Clamped that in a vice and drove the barrel and receiver down thru it. Receiver stopped when it hit the block, barrel continued out the bottom. Pretty slick. – Jack
