Anyone use Teflon Tape on Choke Tube Threads?

[BILLY D.]

Originally posted by TreeDoc
Anti-seize? Oh man...that stuff is right up there with Shrink Tube, Bacon, and Lobster....one of the good things in life! If I could find a jar of anti-seize big enough, I'd bathe in that crap! Nothing has saved me more money and time when it was used, or cost me more money and time when it wasn't. Working on the heavy equipment I own, I go through it like crazy.

I use it on my choke tubes too. I have a problem with choke tubes loosening in my Benelli and Beretta's that I use for waterfowling. It's primarily because of the vibration and oscillation caused on the 1.5 mile ride to my blind on the ATV and the gravel covered levy I travel on. The anti-seize doesn't make them stay in any better but it assures they will break loose and come out after I torque the bajeezuz out of them to prevent their loss in the first place.

Anti-Seize is great on toast, too!

hey doc

i thought you'd be all over the quote about pops yoshimura.

my take on the choke tube threading is this. if you look at the tubes the threads are usually shallow and very close together. to me it looks like 2500 threads per inch of tube. darn things are really close together. i think the anti seize lets them stretch and seat a little tighter without stressing or stripping.

we used to get shotguns in the shop and the customer says "i can't get my choke tubes out to change". well the first time you look at the gun and see the tubes are perfectly blue, first clue
the gun is about 5-10 years old. second clue.

the tube condition means the owner has never had the tubes out for cleaning or changed his patterning. so you can just bet the rest of the gun is in marvelous condition also. so my mentor and i would go back in the shop and first thing it got was a shot of kroil and the next morning we would start to work on it. one of us would make sure the tube wrench didn't jump out of the tube and the other would be on the breaker bar. usually as our testicles dropped into our socks the tube would break free.

no problem seeing what the trouble was, powder fouling and rust. so we'd chase the threads, hook up a bore brush to an electric drill and run it in and out the muzzle till everything was clean. then we'd use a wire wheel, fine bristle, to clean the tube.
when everything was cleaned to our satisfaction we re-oiled it all and put anti seize in the threads and put it back together.

typically these guns would come in the shop with grime in the actions, they were pumps and had wheat and oat kernals and chaff in them. some of the autos were worse. they hadn't been cleaned since hector was a pup.

some folks should not be allowed to own firearms.