Keeping an armoury stock repair, in repair

[ilikeoldguns]

Hi.

So my SVT has a very nice and I think well-done dove-tailed armoury repair on the stock on one side, about where the barrel screws into the reciever.

It fits like a glove, but over time, it's worked loose.

I cleaned it up and wood-glued it back in place, but that only lasted one trip to the range, half-way.

Now I have it back in place with some superglue, but I have my doubts this will hold either. Any suggestions?

Thank you for your time.

 

[H Wally]

Sounds like the wood has shrunk a bit... maybe some oil got in there too? I'm not sure exactly how the piece looks that you're dealing with, but a couple things might help.

If the wood's oily and causing the glue to not bond, hit both pieces with a hair drier for a bit - sweat some of the oil out then clean up the gluing surfaces with alcohol and a bunch of clean rags.

Another option if there's sufficient wood is to remove the repair and fit a couple small diameter screws inside the hole, sitting as low as possible below the final surface of the repair. Trim the heads leaving lots of thread visible, then cut matching holes in the repaired piece of wood so the screw tops have somewhere to go. This'll increase area being glued and if there's direct contact between the screw threads and repair wood, some mechanical bonding. If trimming the screw heads in place is an issue, cut the heads off in advance and cut a notch in the end of the screw for a fine flat head screwdriver once you've pre-drilled the holes (you won't get much twisting force on a cut head of small diameter).

Yet another option is to clean the repair as above, glue in place, then pin the wood along the edge by pre-drilling with the finest diameter drill available, glue and clothes pins. Drill on an angle so opposing pins don't allow the repair to lift straight out or against the other. If done carefully you can hide the pins in the seam of the repair, or countersink them and a tiny dab of dark sawdust mixed with glue will cover the head. You'll need a very find drill bit for this (they snap easily), but it'll turn out well. Rough up the pin with sand paper to increase grip of the pin in the glue, and trim pin head with a dremel for smaller surface hole.

 

[ilikeoldguns]

I'm going to try the hair dryer thing and I have a pinvice and experience with the small drill bits and pinning stuff in place.

What I ended up doing this time was cleaning it up with simple grean, letting it try and using crazy glue.