My trusty Husqvarna 1640 in 30-06 has been sitting on the shelf for a year now..waiting for me to try my hand at glass bedding the stock. The 2 action screws had worked themselves loose and the recoil had split the stock at the rear tang, as well the recoil lug was split. I started by using the Dremel to route out some grooves across the recoil lug and remove some material from in and around the recoil lug. I put in brass 4-40 piece of threaded rod across the split recoil lug and CA'd the wood to keep it together until I got the epoxy on it. (should have taken pics of this but forgot) I did some research on what "glass" to use and ended up choosing PC-7 2 part epoxy paste, which turned out to be a great material to work with. I could have used "acra glass" which has been around forever, but thought I would try something new. Found out it has very little shrinkage and thought it would work well. I also looked at JB weld, which would probably work as well, it's just a little thinner and would run everywhere until it set. The PC7 I found out after I mixed it, has at least an hour working time and is a thick paste with a 24 hour cure time. It doesn't run and cleans off of tools easily. I mixed up a batch and spread it all around the recoil lug and up to the front of the receiver, placed the Kiwi wax coated receiver carefully into place, and tightened up the action using the rear bolt and some spacers, in the front lug hole. It worked great. I used some vinyl tubing around the recoil lug threaded hole, and it protected the thread area and gave a nice space around the lug bolt. (waxed it as well) After the epoxy was a little tacky, about 4 hours before it was starting to firm up, I removed the bolt and spacer and trimmed a little bit around the lug hole and replaced the trigger guard and magazine cover and tightened up the bolts and let it sit overnight in a warm place to cure.
Today was the big reveal, trying to get the receiver out of the stock. Removed the bolts and I couldn't get the trigger guard off the receiver...uh ohhh. No epoxy leaked that I could see so I dropped the hinged floor plate and wiggled with equal force, the front and rear and it finally popped out. (turned out the epoxy made a nice tight fit around the lug hole and the guard had to come straight up and away) Then came the action, tapped the barrel, nothing, pushed up on the action, nothing, banged the barrel harder, nothing, still stuck, then I remembered reading somewhere, bang the stock down while holding the barrel, did that with a solid rap and out she popped!
I cleaned up around the lug hole and here is the result. I am pretty happy with it for my first go at it. It was pretty easy, just took a little time and thinking.
Your thoughts?
Cheers
Today was the big reveal, trying to get the receiver out of the stock. Removed the bolts and I couldn't get the trigger guard off the receiver...uh ohhh. No epoxy leaked that I could see so I dropped the hinged floor plate and wiggled with equal force, the front and rear and it finally popped out. (turned out the epoxy made a nice tight fit around the lug hole and the guard had to come straight up and away) Then came the action, tapped the barrel, nothing, pushed up on the action, nothing, banged the barrel harder, nothing, still stuck, then I remembered reading somewhere, bang the stock down while holding the barrel, did that with a solid rap and out she popped!
I cleaned up around the lug hole and here is the result. I am pretty happy with it for my first go at it. It was pretty easy, just took a little time and thinking.Your thoughts?
Cheers
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