Taking the Heat to The Rock

[Shorty]

I have a micro rock (cocker) that needs rebuilt and it's giving me problems taking it apart. I removed the adjustment screw and barb. Tried gripping the body with rubber and a strap wrench and turning the end fitting with a wrench, but nothing will budge. It is the kind with the rounded front, and the outer cylinder seems to be one piece with no separate front cap.

I've seen the trick where you use bolts with lock washers to tighten the bolts to the reg. I can use nylon washers as well to maybe increase grip/reduce marring, but based on the rounded front I'm skeptical that would work without scratching it up. Should I assume red loctite and apply heat, and if so where, the base? I have the standard micro rock replacement kit ready to go so hoping I wouldn't melt anything that wouldn't be in the kit.

Edit: I assume leaving the barb in and using it to try and unscrew the body is a bad idea

[gabe]

I wouldn't advice taking heat to or or at most just a blow dryer or heat gun. Definitely nothing that will melt the o-rings and make it even worse.

Recently I rebuilt my micro rock and just used a washer right against the base to pull it apart. You're not putting the bolt and jam nut/washer in the front where the adjuster screw is, it goes in the back where the NPT fitting that screws into the front block is. You pull the fitting out and you'll have a 1/4-28 (IIRC) hole there that you thread your bolt and lock nut into. If you tighten it down and hold the body of the reg you can thread the rear cap off.

[Shorty]

I did see a YouTube video in which someone (baccipaintball?) used the bolt trick on both ends of the reg to disassemble it in a spit-roast fashion. That was on a micro rock with the flat end and a separate end cap though.

As of now I can't even get the fitting that attaches it to the front block off, but I'll try the hair dryer tonight before I go more extreme.

[Killshot_Kustoms]

http://customcockers.com/forum/showthread.php?45568-Palmers-Micro-Rock-Dissasembly