Jailbreaking Suppressors
Mentioned a company that did that a while back. Well, here’s* a list of potential cons:
If it is a center fire can, it will probably rattle after you shoot it as you can’t get the parts together tight enough with special tools.
It may very well mess up the accuracy of the suppressor,and your POI shift may vary after each dis-assembly session. And if you put it back together really wrong, you may destroy the can, or send bullets flying off in really wrong directions
If you don’t take it apart every 10-20 rounds, you may not be able to get it apart, unless you use lots of antiseize lube all over the threads and internal parts, and now guess what? You are shooting a “wet” can with all that lube. There are gobs of “take apart” cans out there that are permanently sealed because they weren’t taken apart often enough.
You will need special tools to hold the can, and be able to wrench the end caps off once fired. It isn’t simply unscrewing the caps off like opening an aspirin bottle.
Unless you wear latex gloves and a respirator mask, you are going to expose yourself to a lot of body soluble lead
There is a reason most manufactures seal their cans, and it isn’t to make a profit by having you send them in for service.
Anyone have experience with jailbreaking one?
* Subguns.com links expire after a few days, hence the copy and paste.
June 25th, 2014 at 8:28 pm
horse-pucky. I tore down a T.R.O.S. – integral on s Ruger MKI platform – that was so dirty I had to scrape the lead off the baffles. Also if you aren’t suppose to clean them, why does YHM include a TAKE-DOWN-TOOL with their pistol cans. Now, rifle cans all seem to be sealed – probably because of the pressure factor vs a pistol can.
That said, I do remember ALL of the original Gen one cans could be opened and rebuilt(Warbel Mac/M-14/M-16 cans anyone?). Batfags decided that was bad for some reason so everybody started sealing their cans.
June 25th, 2014 at 8:31 pm
And just to throw gasoline on that fire, when I get around to (legally)building a can for my .50 it’ll be an “open” platform… probaly using a reflex-baffle design.
June 26th, 2014 at 1:56 pm
Permanently sealed?
I bet a good soak in solvent will fix that, honestly.
June 26th, 2014 at 3:58 pm
Permanently sealed?
Hogwash. You just need a longer breaker bar. You can pop red lock-tight with a 4′ breaker bar.
SteveA
June 26th, 2014 at 5:26 pm
I had SRI (Stalking Rhino Industries) jail-break my Gemtech MK9K last year. Best thing I ever did to it. Now I can really get it clean and there are no negatives to the jail-break.
June 27th, 2014 at 2:59 pm
The biggest question people should be asking themselves is why in the world would you clean a can? Other than .22lr cans it takes tens of thousands of rounds before baffle erosion and lower internal volume start to degrade performance (unless shooting something like 5.56 on really short barrels), and once you’ve shot over ten grand in ammo through a can, we all know you can afford a new one. Jailbreaking is a solution to a non-problem.