With enough effort even the simplest task can be made difficult.
This is exactly what I was thinking. I remember seeing that same demonstration on an episode of Mr. Wizard when I was a kid.
OP, please let us know how the GS gets it out… the suspense is killing me.
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. :cray:
“Enough is enough! I’ve had it with these motherfucking snakes, in this motherfucking bore!”
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.
I’ve done that with my ar-15 many a times! also got cleaning supplies stuck elsewheres!!! what a pain in the #$$
Can we get an update on this?
4 years old.
Hmmm
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.
You could use a hyper-miniaturized pico-nuke and vaporize it. You could just as easily use a directed energy beam, either phaser type or disruptor type. If you live near a big particle accelerator like CERN you could get them to burn it out with bremsstrahlung.
I had to get lots of stuff out of my barrel these past days. Accuracy was not killed by the jamming a rod down the barrel a few times. This is not the best thing in your case, however. What I find to often be the case with “stuckages” as I call them is the rod, piece, or bore snake is stuck in the gas port next to the gas block. You for sure ought to take that off and see what you can figure from there. There’s lots of creative solutions, and then there’s doing everything you can to come up with the best one (ex. Not trial and error)
Did you get it out?
And if so, what method did the 'smith use?
He tapped it out with a hammer and a piece of drill rod.
really?
Do you know what size drill rod he ended up using?
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So how did this nightmare end?
Damn I was following this for some weeks and now in
boresnake story limbo.
NM, I think I missed a post just above. Sorry I revived this.
I’m eager to hear how this was resolved, too. I had a brand new Boresnake Viper snap at the knot, thankfully after clearing the barrel.
I’m not too keen on using these things for my rifle after that. But, I’m still using one for my pistol. Pulling a busted boresnake from a pistol wouldn’t be nearly as much of a hassle.
I’m going to look at the Grovtec EZ clean. Same principle as the boresnake, but it’s made with a coated steel cable instead of a nylon cord.
Neither of these take the place of a good patch and rod cleaning, but they do come in handy when a full cleaning session isn’t practical.