Shipping suppressor back to the Mothership

[Tactically Fat]

It appears that I've finally realized that I'm at my meager limit when it has come to cleaning my 100% aluminum rimfire suppressor.

I've been in contact with the manufacturer in order to send it in for their professional disassembly and cleaning.

I PRESUME that if I were to ship it I'd probably need to ship it overnight due to the carrier's rules on such things?

Should I ask for a copy of their FFL?

Can another FFL-holder ship it via USPS?

 

[combat45acp]

Priority Mail is probably the easiest, and cheapest. You would need to ship it, FFL would not ship it, as it is in your name, and can not transfer to the FFL without ATF approval. The FFL could work on it, but not ship.

 

[chezuki]

It appears that I've finally realized that I'm at my meager limit when it has come to cleaning my 100% aluminum rimfire suppressor.

I've been in contact with the manufacturer in order to send it in for their professional disassembly and cleaning.

I PRESUME that if I were to ship it I'd probably need to ship it overnight due to the carrier's rules on such things?

Should I ask for a copy of their FFL?

Can another FFL-holder ship it via USPS?

1. Is it Huntertown?
2. If yes to 1, do you have any desire to ever see your suppressor again?

 

[chezuki]

Double post.

 

[MontereyC6]

I can answer for the fat guy, it is NOT a HTA can.

 

[Tactically Fat]

Nope. Not a Huntertown.

It's Idahoan by birth.

And I didn't think that I, as an individual, would be allowed to ship a suppressor via USPS/Priority mail? I know that I could ship a long gun, but figured that NFA items would be on the verboten list like Handguns.

With their estimated cleaning fees ... And UPS/FedEx overnight shipping charges... I'm probably going to be almost the cost for a brand new can. Of course, that'd also require another $200...

 

[Rookie]

What are the baffles made out of

 

[chezuki]

What are the baffles made out of

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my 100% aluminum rimfire suppressor...

 

[Tactically Fat]

Aluminum.

100% aluminum can. End caps, tube, baffles.

 

[combat45acp]

USPS is totally fine, perfectly legal. Ask gemtech they will tell you the same.

 

[tbhausen]

Can you not take it apart? I would try some Purple Power (cleaner you can get at Walmart) mixed 50-50 with water in an ultrasonic cleaner. I clean carburetors and so forth with that stuff, and it will not damage aluminum. It does a great job getting really nasty gummy gasoline cleaned off. Heck, you may not need to take it apart, and if you can't get it apart, doing this may allow you to get it apart.

 

[Six Shooter Steve]

Aluminum.

100% aluminum can. End caps, tube, baffles.

My aluminum rimfire cans I just Soda blast and they look like new. I just rigged up a air nozzle and a piece of plastic line that I drop in a box of baking Soda and spray it till the lead and carbon blow off.

 

[Tactically Fat]

USPS is totally fine, perfectly legal. Ask gemtech they will tell you the same.

Thank you, sir!

Can you not take it apart? I would try some Purple Power (cleaner you can get at Walmart) mixed 50-50 with water in an ultrasonic cleaner. I clean carburetors and so forth with that stuff, and it will not damage aluminum. It does a great job getting really nasty gummy gasoline cleaned off. Heck, you may not need to take it apart, and if you can't get it apart, doing this may allow you to get it apart.

No, I cannot get it apart. End caps are off - but baffle stack is stuck. I can't break either "lead ring" on either end to get the baffles to fall out. If I could do that then I'd be golden. Or aluminum'd. Whatever.

But Purple Power, chemically, won't help with dissolving some of the lead so I can get the baffle stack out.

My aluminum rimfire cans I just Soda blast and they look like new. I just rigged up a air nozzle and a piece of plastic line that I drop in a box of baking Soda and spray it till the lead and carbon blow off.

If I had access to something like that, I may be able to blast the "lead ring" out of one side and get the baffles out. But I have no way to do any of that.

 

[Rookie]

Have you tried a dowel and hammer?

 

[Tactically Fat]

Have you tried a dowel and hammer?

I have - yes. But I admit that I was going gingerly out of fear of damaging something.

I should probably do it again - with an extra set of hands to assist.

 

[M67]

Can you not take it apart? I would try some Purple Power (cleaner you can get at Walmart) mixed 50-50 with water in an ultrasonic cleaner. I clean carburetors and so forth with that stuff, and it will not damage aluminum. It does a great job getting really nasty gummy gasoline cleaned off. Heck, you may not need to take it apart, and if you can't get it apart, doing this may allow you to get it apart.

You don't want to put an aluminum suppressor in an ultrasonic

 

[Tactically Fat]

You don't want to put an aluminum suppressor in an ultrasonic

I've already crossed that bridge.

 

[Six Shooter Steve]

If I had access to something like that, I may be able to blast the "lead ring" out of one side and get the baffles out. But I have no way to do any of that.[/QUOTE]
Don't know where your located, but if your near me your welcome to use my soda setup and try.

 

[Tactically Fat]

Don't know where your located, but if your near me your welcome to use my soda setup and try.

I appreciate the offer, but Converse is too far from Greenwood to make it practical. I'm never through that area at all.

 

[romack991]

This is what my can came with. Might be worth a try.
Advanced Armament Co (AAC) Baffle Removal Tool Element Suppressor