While attempting to get my gas tube aligned before installing the pin my gas tube has become stuck in my gas block. I am using a Superlative Arms adjustable gas block and the supplied gas tube that came with the barrel from Craddock Precision. I don't want to use plyers and risk damaging the gas tube. I have looked online for a gas tube wrench like this one https://www.brownells.com/tools-cle...ols/wrenches/ar-15m16-308-ar-gas-tube-wrench/ but they are all listed as either sold out or discontinued everywhere I look. Does anyone have another tool they can suggest to remove a stuck gas tube without damaging it?
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AR Gas Tube Wrench
- Thread starter Maelstrom
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Just use a pair of spark plug boot pliers.
The jaws are rubber coated and if you need a little more grip with them wrap the tube with tape or piece of rubber like bicycle intertube or something similar.
The jaws are rubber coated and if you need a little more grip with them wrap the tube with tape or piece of rubber like bicycle intertube or something similar.
If the gas tube is already installed in the block and the block is on the barrel, why do you need to remove it? Just pin it and yolo.
A couple of small pieces of lath. Lay them together and drill a slightly smaller than gas tube size hole where they meet, about 3/8" from the end so it doesn't run into the barrel.
A tiny Harbor Freight C clamp and maybe some rosin if it's in tight.
Tap on the C clamp with a plastic hammer or whatever you have.
A tiny Harbor Freight C clamp and maybe some rosin if it's in tight.
Tap on the C clamp with a plastic hammer or whatever you have.
Grab it with vise grips and try to spin it in the block while pulling out on it. As long as you don't smash it who gives a shit if it gets marred up a little...
Weird that it got stuck. I can't come up with an explanation for that. I'd probably try wood jaws in a bench vise. Distribute the clamping force over a long section of the tube.
Yup. I've had some get stuck, after use and carbon lock, and vise grips and twisting did the trick. Gas tubes are pretty thick, you'd have to really try to damage it in any way beyond some marring.
It's really odd that the fit is so tight that you can't line up the hole.
It any case, gas tubes are a lot tougher than they look and they don't collapse nearly as easily as you think they will. Hit it with some lube and put some pliers on it. Not vice grips, just pliers.
Did you have a hard time getting the tube into the block? I'm wondering if some got lodged in the roll pin hole and is preventing it from turning.
It any case, gas tubes are a lot tougher than they look and they don't collapse nearly as easily as you think they will. Hit it with some lube and put some pliers on it. Not vice grips, just pliers.
Did you have a hard time getting the tube into the block? I'm wondering if some got lodged in the roll pin hole and is preventing it from turning.
At the end of the day this is also one of the cheapest parts on a rifle, hit it hammer grab it with pillars, soak it in gas. Fuck it if it gets trashed at the end you at least learned what not to do...Like others have stated they are pretty sturdy and some marks on the outside wont harm a thing.
I beat the dog shit out of one trying g to get my tube back because I didn't have another of that length on hand. Finally it let go and it broke where the gas enters the tube and left the nub in there. That's when I found out the gas adjustment scree had it captured in there.
