Remington is no longer in business. I doubt that RemArms is going to fix your gun, even if you pay them. You can try to call them and see.

I would say contact a good gunsmith. Maybe find one that was a Remington Service Center.

 

I would put some Lock Tite on it. I had a magazine tube continually come loose on a new Versa Max about 4 years ago.
Not wanting to mess with a new gun I took it to a Remington repair center. They put Lock Tite on it and said let it sit for 24 hours before using it. I did and it is fine now. Just a thought.

 

Versa Max has an aluminum receiver. 11-87 is steel. From everything I have read, the mag tube is brazed in the receiver on 11-87.

 

I’d try some red loctite.

 

Ahlmans in Mn replaced my magazine tube. They did a good job,

 

Sorry to bump an old thread but I’m unable to direct message you.

I’m wanting to change out the magazine tube on my 11-87 Sporting Clays for the longer standard length 11-87 magazine tube. I looked at my magazine tube and receiver and I don’t see any brazing/solder, I was hoping that you could take a photo so I can compare mine to yours.

 

The 1100 mag tubes are silver soldered in place. The 11-87 mag tube is threaded in place, at least my 11-87 Premier trap is? Owning a Remington now is kind of a crap shoot. If anything breaks requiring factory service, you are screwed. Who does that work now? I.E., replacing a 1100 mag tube requires silver soldering in a new one and then re-blue the receiver.
REMARMS does no repairs.
Buy a Browning!

 

The 1100 mag tubes are silver soldered in place. The 11-87 mag tube is threaded in place, at least my 11-87 Premier trap is? Owning a Remington now is kind of a crap shoot. If anything breaks requiring factory service, you are screwed. Who does that work now? I.E., replacing a 1100 mag tube requires silver soldering in a new one and then re-blue the receiver.
REMARMS does no repairs.
Buy a Browning!

Sorry again, I quoted the wrong person in the post above and I can’t edit the post.


I’m wanting to change out the magazine tube on my 11-87 Sporting Clays for the longer standard length 11-87 magazine tube. I looked at my magazine tube and receiver and I don’t see any brazing/solder, I was hoping that you could take a photo so I can compare mine to yours.

 

I would second Ahlmans. They know what they are doing.

 

1187s are threaded? That's news to me. I can see the solder on mine at the joints.

 

They are silver soldered or brazed in place, not threaded. Re-bluing the receiver is necessary after the repair. If it was mine, I'd try loctite first.

 

I repaired several using a Loctite product. Only one required a second repair years later, and the tube on that one was misshapen creating a larger gap in places. I forget all the numbers now, but Loctite makes products more suited to this task than mere threadlockers.

 

Virginian, I've been reading about LocTite products all morning. Do you remember which number product you used? T

 

Nope. I think it was 660. We had wrecked a $50,000 bearing at work and damaged the housing, and a new housing was 10 weeks away and three days down to install. Put a bunch of Loctite all around the outside race and let it cure and ran for three years until vibration readings showed the bearing was going. Thereafter used it on many similar applications. There was some other Finnish, Swedish, German ??? concoction called Belzona that was pretty amazing too.

 

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Bought the Loctite Black Max 380 and it is on its way. Any advice on how to prepare the surfaces such as sanding and roughing up. I'll probably have to make a jig to make sure of the alignment. Big T

 

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I ordered the Black Max 380 already. Reading about how to prep the areas. Not sure how much of the original brazing to remove to make room for the epoxy. Everything I've read is that it should be a tight fit with the 380. I'll rough up the areas and see what happens. ThanksTerry

 

They were only ever brazed in place. To swap it, you'd have to melt the old one out, braze the new one in place, braze the barrel support block on the tube, and reblue the receiver (assuming you have a blued gun, if you have one of the nickel plated SC guns, you'd have to strip the nickel off before removing the tube, and replate it after installing the new one). I can't comprehend a circumstance where it'd ever be worth doing this to gain one extra round in the magazine, not to mention the fact it'd be very difficult to find a std length tube to even have installed, and the cost to do all this would start to approach buying an entire 2nd gun, esp when you factor in that you'd have to buy a new forend too.

 

Turbo 213 stated he has a 11-87 Trap model, I have a Sporting Clays model, is it possible that these different models from the standard 11-87 line could have a threaded magazine tube? I’m not a gunsmith or knowledgeable on the intricacy of shotguns which is why I’m asking.

My 11-87 has a damaged forend and I’m having difficulty sourcing a replacement. My forend is 10” and a regular 11-87 forend is 12”, I can find those 12” forends all day long.

 

My old 11-87 was sent back to Remington twice for repair of mag. tube due to coming loose. On the 2nd time they just used a new receiver and mag tube combo. I thought it was a press fit but could be wrong. At any rate within a couple years of receiving gun back again I moved on to shotguns with a bit more drop at comb. That old 11-87 was a killer in its day though when I could keep it working. Actually bought a 2nd Blk. Synthetic as a backup gun just so I had something to shoot when gun went back to Remington. Gave it to my son latter. No problems with that one but round count isn,t nothing like my old one had thru it.