Well, no sage advice.
But did you try to ring them with the extractors removed? If you are uncomfortable removing the extractors then take your pocket knife and whittle a small piece of soft wood to wedge the extractors in the open position and try to ring them.
Also, there are some perfectly fine barrels out there that don't ring. I have a set on a W&C Scott sixteen that are fine but they don't ring.
The ringing test gives false results both ways. Barrels with gaps in the solder ring and perfectly good barrels fail to ring.
Last edited by AmarilloMike; 02/12/14 07:38 PM.
