bedding release agent??

[Nipigon Jack]

Years ago I worked one summer at a boat building company producing gel coat boat parts from moulds. As I/we were spraying in coloured gel coat, we always used FRP mould release wax.
Later on in life I built some FRP moulds to reproduce motorcycle FRP parts. Based on the summer I spent in the boat compamy I purchased FRP mould release wax to coat the moulds.
After using it a few times I thought "I'm not spraying coloured gel coat" and "This stuff looks just like floor paste wax"!
When I ran out of the mould release wax I decided to use floor paste wax as a test. The floor wax was just as good as the mould release wax.
Again, as mentioned above, I used to apply 2-4 light coats, basically depending on the shape of the part and how difficult I thought it would be to release.
A good quality, plain old floor paste wax (make sure there is no silicone) will work fine to coat an action/barrel.

Just curious.
A couple of responses have specified "no silicone"
Why is that?

 

[danager]

I only had to bed the back portion of the base for my R700. I slathered on (and then mostly wiped off) plain old Chap Stick. I didn't have any of that other stuff, not sure if/when I will need a release agent in the future.

 

[Jeromeo]

In the last 45 years I have never used anything better than plain old floor paste wax. One coat brushed on with a soft brush always does it. A can will last many years if you do a lot of bedding.

Guntech bedded my rifle and did some very good, professional work. Makes my bedding jobs look like garbage.

I have used PAM cooking spray.

 

[Dogleg]

I've used just about everything, nothing beats ordinary floor wax.

 

[blackacres]

Silicones in the release agent can cause the epoxy bedding compound to 'fish eye', or 'pull way' from the release agent (just as water, or paint pulls away from silicone compounds), creating air pockets and/or an uneven surface on the bedding epoxy compound.