fiver
Well-Known Member
well step one is done and drying.
I mixed up a little olive drab looking bedding compound and wedged some tooth pick in the cracks to hold everything open then worked the compound in there before pulling the toth picks and letting the wood fall back into place naturally then smoothing everything out.
then I bedded the whole front 4" of the stock and done the recoil lug and first 1-1/2" of the barrel.
i'll let that all dry for about 3 days then fill in between the two.
damn near couldn't get the barrel out of the stock but all the screws go in and out properly and all the bottom metal fits a bit better now too.
after the middle part of the fore-stock I will address the crack down the middle of the stock [all the way down]
I am going to cut and form a couple of S shaped pieces of cold rolled steel and flatten them out then relieve the stock and bed them into place.
I see two areas that need this badly, and one is gonna be a little tricky.
and in one place I will just hog it out and bend the ends over on another piece of steel in more of a Z shape [only straight and not so big on the ends] then bed that in.
after that I'm going to build up the slop between the magazine box and the wood and then attack the tang area where there is another small crack at the top and the bottom.
I will most likely just degrease those and force some acrylic glue in the cracks.
I have to remove some of the wood where the rifle has been rubbing and build up other areas for better support and fill in the gap at the back.
I also have to build up the screw holes where they have wallowed out but that'll just be a couple of metal spacers I fit in there that closely fits the screws themselves.
once I get done the stock will be stronger than it was originally.
it better be it's gonna be half steel and half bedding compound.
oh I have a plan to find out if the wood will take the cera-kote or not too.
more on that later as I type this all out.
I mixed up a little olive drab looking bedding compound and wedged some tooth pick in the cracks to hold everything open then worked the compound in there before pulling the toth picks and letting the wood fall back into place naturally then smoothing everything out.
then I bedded the whole front 4" of the stock and done the recoil lug and first 1-1/2" of the barrel.
i'll let that all dry for about 3 days then fill in between the two.
damn near couldn't get the barrel out of the stock but all the screws go in and out properly and all the bottom metal fits a bit better now too.
after the middle part of the fore-stock I will address the crack down the middle of the stock [all the way down]
I am going to cut and form a couple of S shaped pieces of cold rolled steel and flatten them out then relieve the stock and bed them into place.
I see two areas that need this badly, and one is gonna be a little tricky.
and in one place I will just hog it out and bend the ends over on another piece of steel in more of a Z shape [only straight and not so big on the ends] then bed that in.
after that I'm going to build up the slop between the magazine box and the wood and then attack the tang area where there is another small crack at the top and the bottom.
I will most likely just degrease those and force some acrylic glue in the cracks.
I have to remove some of the wood where the rifle has been rubbing and build up other areas for better support and fill in the gap at the back.
I also have to build up the screw holes where they have wallowed out but that'll just be a couple of metal spacers I fit in there that closely fits the screws themselves.
once I get done the stock will be stronger than it was originally.
it better be it's gonna be half steel and half bedding compound.
oh I have a plan to find out if the wood will take the cera-kote or not too.
more on that later as I type this all out.