[Doc Hoy]

I have a vice mounted to a heavy bench and that vice is lined with some extremely dense ABS plastic. I take the revolver apart, Including removal of the cylinder pin. The vice I use for this operation is a cast iron wood worker's vice. I use this vice purposely because it is six inches across and this provides a lot of surface area to contact the barrel.

Then, with the barrel in the vice I turn the frame of the revolver. I make sure to hold the frame by the bulky area at the front of the frame. I never grip the frame by the web, nor the grip. I never use a bar through the web. If I have to get more leverage which has not happened yet, I will use a wooden clamp tightened onto the frame. I have never had to use liquid wrench on any revolver that the barrel came out of. On the one revolver which I could not disassemble, all of the liquid wrench in Chesapeake would not budge the barrel.