Re: Changing a cap on a can
Julio, I do not know what model you bought, but if there was such a thing as a thread end "cap" for a 100% 360 degree, deep penetration welded can, one could not "get it on in an hour." Hell, getting it off without destroying the can is going to take you that long. Nor would you want a precision can that you could for a rifle as nice as yours.
Your can is not a .22 AAC Pilot. It is not screwed together with loose pieces held under the pressure of the end cap. There is no "jail breaking" a superb centerfire precision can. Jail breaking is to get at the lead in poor purge rimfire cans. Good companies do everything they can to insure that just what you want, the kind of lead-in that comes off in under 60 minutes does not happen. In Titanium, RHINO charges $350 and their idea of refinishing is bead blasting and paint (you pay more for that too). AWC's refinish alone takes 2 days to cure. IF you bought a THOR, then the whole damn can is milled out of a solid block of Ti. There is no thread end swap, there is no unscrewing, there are no seperate pieces, there is only milling out the back end and getting to work making it all perfect again. And, just like there is no "end cap," there is no making the kind of can you bought for $450, $650 etc. etc.
I appreciate your disappointment, but you happened to pick a can where everything that you bought it for depends on the absolute correctness of the thread end into the armature. You have three choices, rethread your barrel, rework your can, or sell it to somebody as a new can and get on with it. These guys didn't say they wouldn't do it, they just wouldn't do it at the price you wanted for a one hour job. If you bought an AWC Ti and you talked to one of the guys that weld it up at and you told them it would take you an hour, I would have said the exact same thing. "If you can swap out the lead in to this can in under an hour you should be making your own can."
Yea, yea , I know, f*ck me too....f*ck everybody.
Now you were going to do what in an hour?