Convert aero solus barrel to CDG

[The Knuckle]

Curious if any smiths have converted aero solus prefits to work on a ARC CDG action.

Looks like you just need to cone the breach, thread the tenon more and probably touch up the chamber a little.

If it is possible, is that a pain to do? I’ve got a couple solus barrels and a cdg action.

 

[Tperry]

Most guys would just cut off the old threads and start over. Would be easier.

 

[The Knuckle]

Great, I didn’t think of approaching it that way. Makes sense. Much easier

 

[kthomas]

Sell them to our resident Solus aficionado and get some nice dedicated barrels for your CDGs

 

[Tperry]

Just looking at prints it should be possible to chop .130" off the tenon length and cut the counterbore cone and ream the chamber .203" deeper to set the headspace though. You shouldn't have to pick up a thread since the Solus tenon is longer than the CDG.

 

[The Knuckle]

@Tperry Thanks for sharing that. Gonna relay that to my smith and see what we can do.

 

[4O6shootist]

Sell barrel, put a new barrel on the CDG. Don't stack a bunch of tolerances atop one another by turning an origin tenon into a CDG unless you just part off the 0.980 solus tenon and start new threads leaving half the old chamber there. At least at this point the new reamer will clean up all the old chamber if it's same cartridge.

 

[Mulepackhunter]

Ya sell iot, you dont know the quality of the chamber job on the existing so you would be stuck with the same quality unless you cut alot more than .130, the .980 suggestion makes more sense since you could bore it back straight if it wasnt indicated well as it sits.
Love the CDG action by the way. two thumbs up.