Taken many mag tubes off. Guy gave me a tip that sometimes works. Put the 500 in the corner. Apply nail polish remover with acetone (pure acetone a little much) where the mag tube threads meet the receiver with an eye dropper. Let gravity work. Do it again when it sinks in. Wipe any spill over...
Bought one of their 20" barrels for the 500A a few years back. Sold that project gun. Threaded for chokes so I thought what the hell. For the price I can't complain. It comes with a canted sight bead. Luckily I had a wrap around sight that fit and locked down with allen screws-otherwise the bead...
33 years with my 500A and I've never oiled anything except the barrel. Dry silicon spray for the slide tube (inside and out), the inside of the receiver and the bolt and the 3 other parts we know so well. The trigger assembly as a whole will get sprayed out with nitro solvent every 10 years or...
Have you tracked this package, Don? My God, what are they doing with your magazine tube? Last I tracked it's in Florida? today. Left Connecticut the 25th of March First Class.
Tube and spring going out Monday morning. USPS Tracking 9500 1000 3019 8084 0001 18 Expected in Hiram, GA on March 29. Now get a 28" barrel and get it done.
OK, Don. I'll ship it out Monday. If you are a newbie check this forum carefully on how to remove your magazine tube without crushing it. Heat gun (hair dryer on high for 10 minutes has worked to break the Loctite on a few I've done) and a rubber strap wrench works best for me. Many ideas on...