"I just got my new K-20, and it won't go together"
"Get serious"
"No, really. I lubed and oiled and lubed some more. It's an interference fit and it just won't go together."
"Meet me at the club tomorrow."
So, I'm holding a first year K-20 that has never been shot and never put together. The gun is 17 years old. I don't understand the reason for the existence of such things, but here it is. It apparently came from the estate of a guy who bought and never used it. Go figure.
It won't go together. In Germany near two decades ago it must have gone together. Now it won't. Incredible.
So, enter the heat gun. We worked the frame over a little with a heat gun, the same one I used a long time ago to get the chokes out of an early Beretta 'Mobil Choke' gun that had been used with steel shot and defeated a Brownell's stuck choke tool.
Presto. It didn't take much heat to do the job, but no way was that gun going together otherwise.
It functioned perfectly once assembled, and wasn't particularly difficult to open and close. We put 150 or so shells through it today. It shoots beautifully and the triggers are as good as triggers get. !7 years in the Americase without seeing the light of day.
Anyone ever run into this? I've seen tight new guns, but this one takes the cake.
