Articulating Vise option

Dave, how do you think these would hold up to hammer forces? I have a gun at work I have been working on because it was living in salt water for a looooong while. It is loaded (cartridges likely inert) and I have spent the last three days soaking it in a vat of Kroil, interspersed with banging on it in many directions with hammers, pipes, punches (I have gotten it stripped down fairly well while I think about how to get a seized cartridge out of a chamber...with a pipe around the barrel and a hammer I was finally able to get the slide back). An articulating vice like this would be awesome for this project gun but I don't know how well the vice would handle hammer blows to an object that is installed into the vice.
 
Carl said:
Dani, you gotta have the most unique job of any member of the DHBP!!!
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There certainly aren't many forensic firearms examiners out there that's for sure....be cool if there was another on the forum but shocking.

Thanks Brad...
 
Dani said:
Dave, how do you think these would hold up to hammer forces? I have a gun at work I have been working on because it was living in salt water for a looooong while. It is loaded (cartridges likely inert) and I have spent the last three days soaking it in a vat of Kroil, interspersed with banging on it in many directions with hammers, pipes, punches (I have gotten it stripped down fairly well while I think about how to get a seized cartridge out of a chamber...with a pipe around the barrel and a hammer I was finally able to get the slide back). An articulating vice like this would be awesome for this project gun but I don't know how well the vice would handle hammer blows to an object that is installed into the vice.
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Guns are not made for using hammers .
 
I strip them of wood etc and soak them in kerosene. I use small lead or plastic heads, tap around andput back in the kero. Took 6 months to free a screw in choke. no damage.
 
Capt Rich Geminski said:
Guns are not made for using hammers .
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Guns tossed in the river, bay, ocean, marsh and allowed to grow oysters and mussels in addition to rust and mud and who knows what else get the hammer treatment. Hammers are the quickest way to de-oyster/mussel a gun, I have found. When they go back to their agency that brought them in, they usually end up getting destroyed anyway. I also don't have the luxury of letting something soak for six months. And kerosene is not an approved chemical for us to use.

It did take me a month to get a Beretta 92 open due to rust and that was with sitting in a vat of Kroil and putting a pipe on the muzzle end, over the barrel and beating it with a hammer to eventually get the slide to move. That one month drove my co-workers and boss crazy because it took up the majority of the fume hood.

Tell people to quit magnet fishing and taking those found guns to the sheriff's offices and I'll quit beating guns with a hammer.
 
Dani said:
Guns tossed in the river, bay, ocean, marsh and allowed to grow oysters and mussels in addition to rust and mud and who knows what else get the hammer treatment. Hammers are the quickest way to de-oyster/mussel a gun, I have found. When they go back to their agency that brought them in, they usually end up getting destroyed anyway. I also don't have the luxury of letting something soak for six months. And kerosene is not an approved chemical for us to use.

It did take me a month to get a Beretta 92 open due to rust and that was with sitting in a vat of Kroil and putting a pipe on the muzzle end, over the barrel and beating it with a hammer to eventually get the slide to move. That one month drove my co-workers and boss crazy because it took up the majority of the fume hood.

Tell people to quit magnet fishing and taking those found guns to the sheriff's offices and I'll quit beating guns with a hammer.
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For once, YouTube= job security?
 
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