ok so the background...
Acquired the pistol via gbroker (was a great deal) back in Oct. 2018 but haven't shot it much, maybe a total of 120 rounds. Been shooting my other guns till now.
Pistol is bronze in color ....its got William Firesights front and rear, Volquartsen accurizing kit and custom grips.
I took it out and shot about 100 rounds through it, on the barrel nut I had a hand tightened compensator on it. The pistol shot great had a nice outing with it.
I arrive home and proceed to clean the pistol, to my dismay when I tried to loosen my compensator the barrel nut also came with it! The barrel without the barrel nut securing it on the end basically can rattle around the upper.
I google this and apparently I'm not the first. I am unwilling to reverse the mods I've done just to have Ruger add epoxy to the barrel nut and torque to spec.
Disclaimer: I'm communicating this info out but your on your own if you break your pistol!
I called Ruger and the barrel nut torque spec is 18 ft lbs...yes, eighteen foot pounds, NOT 18 inch pounds. I had the Ruger rep triple check this.
Luckily I have a barrel clamp with a leather strap from a earlier project and that will prevent from marring the Ruger Mark 4 top while I re-install the barrel nut myself at home. I plan to use Rocksett on the threads - the only thing stopping me is finding a spanner tool for the 1/2" (measured across - center hole to center hole) barrel nut that will allow me to use a torque wrench and measure that torque. Any ideas or suggestions folks?
Acquired the pistol via gbroker (was a great deal) back in Oct. 2018 but haven't shot it much, maybe a total of 120 rounds. Been shooting my other guns till now.
Pistol is bronze in color ....its got William Firesights front and rear, Volquartsen accurizing kit and custom grips.
I took it out and shot about 100 rounds through it, on the barrel nut I had a hand tightened compensator on it. The pistol shot great had a nice outing with it.
I arrive home and proceed to clean the pistol, to my dismay when I tried to loosen my compensator the barrel nut also came with it! The barrel without the barrel nut securing it on the end basically can rattle around the upper.
I google this and apparently I'm not the first. I am unwilling to reverse the mods I've done just to have Ruger add epoxy to the barrel nut and torque to spec.
Disclaimer: I'm communicating this info out but your on your own if you break your pistol!
I called Ruger and the barrel nut torque spec is 18 ft lbs...yes, eighteen foot pounds, NOT 18 inch pounds. I had the Ruger rep triple check this.
Luckily I have a barrel clamp with a leather strap from a earlier project and that will prevent from marring the Ruger Mark 4 top while I re-install the barrel nut myself at home. I plan to use Rocksett on the threads - the only thing stopping me is finding a spanner tool for the 1/2" (measured across - center hole to center hole) barrel nut that will allow me to use a torque wrench and measure that torque. Any ideas or suggestions folks?