The cooling wood will draw a bunch of epoxy well down into the crack. The use of fishing rod sections is reserved for fore ends that need lightening.Īfter I apply the epoxy to heated wood I cover the crack with a little bit of saran wrap. I turn my own dowels from very strong wood, usually walnut. The dowel down into the wrist is a very good idea if the crack is big, the wrist weak, or the rifle a real recoiler. This morning I find I left out lots of pertinent stuff. I hit the submit button before I was done, continued typing, and when I hit the submit button a second time I headed to bed. Art uses something different but I can't remember what manufacturer it is. Other epoxy manufacturers have similar products and hardeners, just do a little research before using them and mix them exactly as the instructions detail. I've been using West Systems for all of my epoxy projects for a very long time and have always had good results with it. I use West Systems with 207 hardener, which is their medium set hardener. Wipe up the excess epoxy quickly with alcohol or acetone and stand the stock up to let the remaining epoxy set up in the hole.Īpparently, you will need to use a slow setting epoxy to make this work properly. This should cause the epoxy to run out the top of the hole. Cut a slot in the side of the dowel to allow epoxy to escape and put a small amount more epoxy in the hole and push the dowel into the hole until it is below the surface of the inlet. Measure the depth of the hole with a piece of wire or something skinny and cut off the dowel approximately 1/4" shorter. Pour the epoxy in the hole and push the rod into the hole, creating a hydraulic ram and slowly push the rod into the hole until you see epoxy squeezing out of the crack on the outside of the stock. Heat the stock at the crack area with a heat gun, and mix up some epoxy. The hole needs to be just slightly larger than the diameter of a wood dowel or other rod you will use later to put in the hole.Ĭut a piece of rod approximately 12" long. The second part of your question, yes- IMO- cracks are cracks- big ones or small ones they cease to be cracks when a portion of the original wood is missing- then it becomes "something else", which is tougher to fix.A woodworker on another gun forum shared this tip and I will use it if I need to some day-ĭrill a hole in the stock from the action inlet down through the wrist just slightly past the crack. JMHO as a former and retired, used to be chemist, once upon a time. They both can serve to stick "stuff" together - and can on their face appear similar and perform similar function- but are only similar if you consider "glue" to be a verb as in "to glue together". "Crazy glue" is a cyanoacrylate compound that when exposed to the moisture in air, polymerizes and becomes another compound by cross linking that occurs between molecules. I'm not sure what "gorilla" glue is- as there are several variants- or how it is "water" activated but it is not a two part epoxy. Click to expand.Epoxy is not "glue" glue is a uniform chemical mixture(often with a volatile solvent to keep it semi-liquid) in its container and remains so after application and evaporation of the solvent.Įpoxy consists of two components- a resin and an hardener(or activator or catalyst) when mixed together they form a third distinct and new chemical compound.
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