No4 zeroing issue

bigedp51 said:
And a wallpaper wetting tray makes a good soaking tank. ;)

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So, I've got my wood soaking. I'll let it go for a couple of hours now.

Biged, your wall paper trays must be better plastic then ours here is Canada. I started mixing my solution in it and had a 'wait a minute' (aka a brain fart) moment. I realized that the turpentine would probably eat the plastic, and behold, when I dumped the mixture into a steel pail, the turp had started to eat the tray. I solved this by lining the tray with aluminum foil.
 
Well it sat for an 2 1/2 hour soak, then unassembled for 16 hours. After putting it all together I still had no pressure at the tip. After another 2 hours of playing with paper and scissors trying to see if I can shim the action to get more pressure via the king screw fulcrum still nothing.

I was just about at the point of seeing if I could send it to one of you guys, and paying you to figure it out for me, when for some reason, that I can't remember, I eye-balled it up to a light. It looks like the stock has warped, at about the mid point, causing the tip to drop away. It's not a lot, but obviously its just enough bring the tip just off the barrel when stocked up.

So, should I build a base of devcon 2"x1/2" (or whatever it is, I'll have to poke through the manuals again) at the tip, and file it down till I get my 5-7 lbs. of pressure? Or option 2 would be to get another forestock, but I would prefer to keep the original stock on it if I can.
 
So I've been reading. It's amazing how something that you read a while ago goes in and right back out. Anyhow I've been reading this article by Peter and came upon these little tidbits.

The weight required to lift the barrel from this muzzle
seating should be between 3 and 7 lbs. If the weight is below this, the
barrel bearing at the reinforce should be lowered. Notice that! The
front trigger guard screw is the pivot when fitting fore-ends. If the
weight is above this, then the body and reinforce seating will be raised.
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and a little farther down
….. or start again or just commit suicide………. The same applies to warped fore-ends
I’m afraid and while I’ve come across a few, they were inevitably scrap
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So they way I read it, I should remove some wood from the front trigger guard area. Or just commit suicide. I think I'll go over to milsurps again (first time in months) and contact PL directly.
 
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