Anybody bedding their Cadex builds?

Kevin Chou told me it should be bedded to remove any movement? He spent about 15 minutes of our phone conversation explaining why it should be bedded. I admit , though it made sense , it was a bit over my head. So who do I believe ? Kevin or Patrice? :)
 
My post was somewhat facetious. I honestly can't see how bedding wouldn't benefit. I can see however why the manufacturer would be against it.
 
Look at the design of the chassis.

There is a slot for the recoil lug,
and four precision machined rollers that work like "V" bedding.

The only places your rifle contacts the chassis is those, and the action screws.

If your action screws are torqued properly, you have even pressure on points with perfect tolerances. Why would there be any movement?
 
I think the manufacture will be against it because they make these chassis systems to be the be all end all. One stop accuracy shop. If you bed, the entire receiver is at equal pressure while it's seated in the chassis. If you have multiple contact points and action screws wrecking havoc on the amount of pressure they excerpt on said points. Your accuracy will suffer. And you might find yourself chasing your tail when, after firing multiple rounds, your zero moves. Because one of your action screws might loosen a bit from recoil. I've been there before.
 
Well I guess pointless is closer to against than for it. Other than the extra money , will the bedding take away anything from the overall build quality?
 
Daver_II said:
Look at the design of the chassis.

There is a slot for the recoil lug,
and four precision machined rollers that work like "V" bedding.

The only places your rifle contacts the chassis is those, and the action screws.

If your action screws are torqued properly, you have even pressure on points with perfect tolerances. Why would there be any movement?
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Unless the recoil lug has good, even contact with the back of the slot, then yes, it can move.
Even if you don't bed the entire action, I would bed the recoil lug into the recess. Also means if you change the action or sell the chassis, all it takes is 5 min with a dremel and you are g2g again.
 
rl4930 said:
You misread my post. Bedding will help.
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nope :). I understood your post. Even though I'm very new to all this, Kevin explained it to me so that I had a better understanding of the application and in my mind , think bedding of the Cadex chassis would be a high Benifit. The reason I ask here is to see if anyone else has the bedding done to their Cadex chassis. To try and find out how much of a difference it made. Given Kevin's reputation, I think I have to take his word for it.
 
I was under the impression roller bedding as used on the cadex was the preferred bedding method of the marines.
 
Id be listening to the manufacture over a gunsmith. The chassis system has patents shared by Remington and cadex, therefore the r&d is backing the manufacturer over the gunsmith.
 
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