Did you know a .410 brush will go down a .38 cal Plainsman barrel?
Did you also know it won't come out?
Damned thing just pulled out of the cleaning rod threads, and went just enough off centre that I can't thread it back on (if I could I would have coated the threads of the rod with JB Stick and threaded it onto the brush. Then when the JB set I could pull it all out).
SO... is there something that will dissolve the brass parts of the brush without damaging the barrel?
OR ... can I unscrew the breech plug from the barrel so I can push the whole mess all the way through?
I've looked at it carefully and can't see any sign that it has been pinned, but I don't want to really reef on it until I know that it should come apart. (Like maybe it has been silver soldered? Oh I hope not)
It also looks to me as if there is an irregular cavity behind the flash hole, where old powder residue collects, so I want to remove that plug anyway.
The Pedersoli site is no help in finding a barrel/action wrench specific to the Plainsman. It is a hex barrel so if I can find a 13/16ths hex wrench I may be able to wiggle it up over the tang onto the barrel. Is there action such a thing as an adjustable barrel/action wrench? (They seem to called Action wrenches, but with a muzzle-loader there is no "Action" per se, so barrel wrench seems a better name in this case.)
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