Tip Float

[Survivor]

I'm taking the '06 to the range with a new attempt at floating the tip.  I wanted to add height with a washer snug on the little pedestal in the (synth)stock that recieves the barrel lug and screw.   I found that the 5/16x1 and the 5/16x3/4 steel washers did not have matching holes in them which explains my trouble with matching the size.  I tried the 1/4" and 3/8" washers but none were right for a tight fit around the lug.  I filed two sides of the 5/16x1" flat until it droped into the stock snug.  So the assembly goes as follows which gets to my question.

I stretch a 1/4x1" hard rubber washer over the lug(against the barrel) followed by the filed 5/16x1" steel washer.  The stock tightens down compressing the rubber almost as much as it will against the barrel.  THe tip floats a hair, almost an 1/8".  Not quite.  If I add a thin rubber ring between the washer and the stock, (which marries the steel washer to the stock and to the barrel with rubber on both of its sides), the pressure seems considerably more.  In the end the tip floats a true 1/8" with the forend tight and snug against the action.  It breaks smooth.  Is it possible that the last ring has added too much upward pressure at the stock screw point in the barrel?  I have no way to measure it however.  Is that bad for the barrel? The barrel seems strong as heck compared to some bits of rubber but I thought I'd ask.  I like the rubber and steel washer combo no matter what I think but the ring may be too much.

[quickdtoo]

I wouldn't worry about the barrel, but I would be concerned about the forend stud, it's just spot welded to the barrel, NFG pulled one off a .45-70 barrel by adding weight to a custom forend to help abate recoil, there's a warning about it in the FAQs.

I'd just sand the forend out to clear the barrel, that's the easiest way to float it along with a spacer/O-ring.

Tim

[Survivor]

There's some plastic at the tip that could be removed.  THNX.  What about any plastic that touches the sides of the barrel?  The '06 contour really fills in the forend. With the 1/16+ lift that the washer gives me I think there's some air space.  Doller bill test?