Thread: DPT Suppressor seized up

Originally Posted by tommygun

I think the Sonic/Neilson brand one's have a slot in each baffle and you can get a pair of wrenches for them that hook into said slots for unscrewing. It wouldn't surprise me if DPT went that way at some point.

They already have a purpose built wrench, available at the shop, I’ve watched Nick use one.

I’m pretty sure it’s available for sale.

Always a good idea to follow the instructions that came with your suppressor:

Suppressor maintenance instructions - DPT Machinists

Having used them for years and been through this multiple times with my rough as mates, I can assure you the DPT will not seize if you do the basic preventative maintenance and don’t over tighten the baffles when reassembling. I watched one particular mate of mine, who is an enormous unit with hands like walrus flippers, carefully reassemble his suppressor after I had cleaned it for him, and then go to each individual baffle and give it a twist as if he was torquing up cylinder head bolts. Despite the threads having just been lubricated, I couldn’t get it undone again. Irritating! Old mate got it undone…. eventually.

Originally Posted by Three O'Three

Be nice if one of them would chimed in and gave some advice.

You can always mention one of the guys directly and if they are around they will reply, usually.

However… I was in the shop of a well-known person in the trade last week, and I asked him why I hadn’t seen him around on the forum for ages. Very straightforward answer, he thinks the forum has been taken over by a bunch of whingeing anti-everything fuckwits who attract exactly the wrong kind of attention to all of us, at a difficult time. He named some names, some of whom were removed in recent weeks.

When I left the shop I was really annoyed, but fully understood where he’s coming from. I think it’s a great shame that the expertise of some of our innovative New Zealand guys is not as available to us in public forum as it used to be, for precisely the reasons that some of us have been going on about for bloody ages. No it wasn’t one of the DPT guys, but come to think of it I haven’t seen them around here for ages either.

Anyway. Rant over.

Maintain your suppressors!