There are times when bedding isn't the cure all.
Not all of us want a threaded barrel.
Sometimes cheap, simple, and effective has its own beauty.
Kinda like a greased ace of spades under the barrel at the forearm tip, or floating an action with greased playing cards and a hole punch around the action screws.
I have done both, after reading Carmichael's books, and both worked.
The rubber barrel tuner is just a newer take on the idea of a common man fix.
Isn't that a bit contradictory? Wouldn't your "greased playing cards" in effect be curing/improving your bedding issues? [Bedding: the nesting of the metal components into the stock for a precise fit, be it through perfect inletting or after the fact with space filling compounds (also used to correct ill-advised, imperfect, or otherwise compromised fit of metal to its support structure after the fact).
In what context are you referring to "threaded barrels" here?
Be careful with your "common man" fixes. All too often such things are the mark of "Bubba". Would it not be a good protocol to experiment with such things in seeking a fix, then making permanent hidden alterations that achieve the same effect? Ie: after determining that said O-ring effected an improvement of sorts, then creating a hidden pad of something permanently fused to the stock channel at that point that achieves the same effect. Bubba often has great ideas but rarely does he see them through to completion.
