Cracked gunstock, what glue?

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I pulled the butt pad off of the stock on my Winchester and found two horizontal cracks. I'm not too concerned, as their not deep. I want to try to glue them to see if it works, if not I'll just buzz an inch off and put on a squishy pad. I have two part epoxy in the house, and probably some wood glue somewhere. Anyone have any quick recommendations as to a good glue? I have 45 minutes till the hardware store down the road closes, so I could make a quick trip. Any thoughts?
 
For hair line cracks I have used super glue. It's thin and runny so it fills the little crack in good, and I don't get it smeared all over.
 
Two-part liquid epoxy ( the good stuff from Lee Valley, not the 5-minute hardware store variety) for bigger cracks, commercial grade super glues like "Hot Stuff", with or without "Zip Kicker" for smaller repairs. If you can't spread the crack, then the super glue does exactly what RR says ... it wicks itself into the crack.
 
Gorilla glue is great, but it expands. And when it hardens, if it hardens external of the crack, you will have to chip it off.

If you use gorilla glue, use half as much as you think you need, then half that much again......
 
I've used acraglas (not the gel) and a can of air (the kind for blowing dust out of computers) to push it in.
 
Gun5tuff said:
I'm thinking he'll never look back at internet suggestions, or did I get that wrong?
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I don't know what the original poster will do, but I am certainly interested in all the suggestions.
I have recently repaired three different stocks with cracks in them. With two I used epoxy and the other was better adapted to good old fashioned white carpenters glue. Would have been crazy glue, but didn't think the surfaces were quite right.
In all cases I found the best way for clamping was with big rubber bands around the stock. Much better than trying to use a mechanical clamp, but will only work in certain cases, of course. Wouldn't work on a crack from the butt up.
Once used gorilla glue for metal to metal, improvising an aperature sight. Wow. Huntinstuff has sure got it right on amounts! It has tremendous strength,though. Only problem was I used a very small amount from quite a large container. Sealed it up best I could, but next time I looked at it, the container had swollen and it was hard as a rock. Will get the smallest amount I can, next time.
Every time I look at a good display of glue, there is something new. Some new products sound very good.
 
be sure to seal the wood be for putting the butt plate or recoil pad back on.cracks under the plate or pad are almost alway a result of the wood checking.sealing it stops this from happening.
 
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