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I recently acquired a 1892 that appears to have been completely re-furbished. It’s serial number indicates it was made in the mid ’20’s, but the bluing is near perfect, all the screw heads look brand new, and it has been re-barreled. Adding to the weirdness is that fact that the barrel band appear to have soldering filling its screw hole. So I can’t take the darn thing apart. My question is, has anyone seen or heard of this being done? If so, is it worth trying to drill out the soldering to install a new barrel band with a screw? I can’t figure why someone would do this in the first place.
I would guess that you have a 38 or 44 caliber carbine. If you are referring to the front barrel band, if it isn’t loose, you might want to just leave it alone. If you start taking it apart, you might be opening a can of worms.
Roger B.
Yeah, I thought about that, and you are probably right. It just bugs me when something is unnecessarily done to a gun that restricts me from working on it in the future. Given the ease of just using a screw, I am baffled as to why someone would go through all the work to make a permanent seal with solder. I appreciate the reply.
Aren’t the front barrel bands pinned on? If so use a punch. Only the forend has a screw for the cap. Why do you want to mess with the bands? The only thing is to take the magazine tube out and you will probably scratch the mag tube badly while doing this. Maybe I’m confused?
Well, I think you are right that the front barrel band (holding the forestock to the barrel and over the magazine tube) is connected to the forestock with a screw. The magazine tube is held to the barrel by a pin going through a ring that is dovetailed into the barrel, as well as a screw at the far end that also holds the mag cap in place. I think you could, perhaps, remove the mag tube without taking off the barrel band, but the band often exerts too much pressure on the tube to do so.
As a follow-up, I am now thinking that whoever did this likely wouldn’t have soldered the band while it was in contact with the wood of the forestock. I am wondering if the barrel band is just a compression fit. Might tap it with a mallet and polymer punch to see
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