Stuck AK Windage Drum

**Gunsnwater** · November 25th, 2019, 10:15 PM

Originally Posted by jthrelf

SUCCESS!!!!!!!!! pretty happy right now. I've spent a lot of time trying to fix this.

Heated it, put it back in the vice and applied an ungodly amount of torque using cheater pipes on the vice handle. I committed that I didn't care if I broke my vice. Sure enough I heard a very satisfying "crack" and all was right in the world.

Good job. Pictures of your setup might help future people.

Edit: is that video how you did it?

**GOYABEAN** · November 25th, 2019, 10:22 PM

Originally Posted by Gunsnwater

If it was a taper it wouldn’t work as windage.

Like I stated not expert I learn something new every day

**GOYABEAN** · November 25th, 2019, 10:23 PM

Originally Posted by jthrelf

SUCCESS!!!!!!!!! pretty happy right now. I've spent a lot of time trying to fix this.

Heated it, put it back in the vice and applied an ungodly amount of torque using cheater pipes on the vice handle. I committed that I didn't care if I broke my vice. Sure enough I heard a very satisfying "crack" and all was right in the world.

**jthrelf** · November 25th, 2019, 10:55 PM

Originally Posted by Gunsnwater

Good job. Pictures of your setup might help future people.

Edit: is that video how you did it?

Yes, more or less. I used a 3/8" socket extension to push on the on the windage drum and a 12mm bit around the drum on the other side and cranked the vice handle with a piece of scrap pipe.

Like I mentioned I'm not sure if it was the penetrating oil, tapping with punch, torch heating, or final application of torque that did the job or a combo of all the above.

**Gunsnwater** · November 25th, 2019, 11:05 PM

I got lucky with mine. The tool worked no problem.

Last month I found my glock aftermarket sight tool had rusted the two pins it slides on, inside their holes. I went through all the options from soaking 2 days in nuts off to heat and hammer. Heat and hammer did it. Always afraid of wrecking stuff when it’s seized up and attempts escalating in force.

**Walleye Hunter** · November 25th, 2019, 11:12 PM

Originally Posted by Gunsnwater

I got lucky with mine. The tool worked no problem.

Last month I found my glock aftermarket sight tool had rusted the two pins it slides on, inside their holes. I went through all the options from soaking 2 days in nuts off to heat and hammer. Heat and hammer did it. Always afraid of wrecking stuff when it’s seized up and attempts escalating in force.

Vinegar is a great penetrant, it just eats rust away.