Well I almost pooped myself...still have a problem though.

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Hi everyone,

As some of you may know my collection of Savage 10s keeps growing. Yes I know...groan...salvages. Sure they're roughly finished, but hot darn do these things shoot!

Anyways one of my FCP-Ks has been the object of my affection as of late. She sits in one of my Boyds Pro-Varmint stocks. (I will be placing an order shortly for another Pro-Varmint in the next little while).

For those of you who have the Pro-Varmint know that the underside of the forend is rounded. Today I attempted to bed my Remple adapter to the forend to give it a stable platform between the adapter and the forend.

I mounted the adapter, and used plumber's putty to create a dam that wrapped the adapter on all sides. I then removed the adapter and covered both it, and the exposed stock in 2-3 coats of Kiwi polish. I whipped up a small batch of Devcon, slapped it down, and dropped the adapter in, bolting it down every so gently.

I noticed that upon bolting down the adapter the Devcon was squeezed out from underneath and pushed the putty dam away from the adapter. I ensured that none of the Devon slipped up and above the adapter. (No locking of the adapter). The Devcon contacts the adapter on the bottom, and all 4 sides, but nowhere else.

About 8 hours later I had a brainfart and realised that the Devcon that pushed the putty dam away would be in contact with non-Kiwi'd stock! I may have just permanently bedded the adapter to the forend. I promptly pulled away all the putty to expose my worst fear, a significant bulge of Devcon had slipped under the putty! Crap crap crap!

At this point the Devcon was good and hard. Not 24hrs hard, but hard enough. My first dozen or so attempts to separate the stock from the Devcon, or, to separate the adapter from the Devcon failed. This thing was not budging. I ended up attaching the Remple and with a lucky twist, the Devon/adapter combo popped off leaving a perfect finish on the forend! Yay success! But!...The adapter refuses to separate from the Devcon. No matter what I try I cannot separate the two.

Any suggestions as to how to break these two apart? Ideally I would like to have the Devcon bedding in one piece such that I can stably mount the adapter when needed. I know that I can grind/sand the adapter free, but that defeats the purpose.

Thoughts, suggestions?

Thanks everyone and sorry for the rambling read,
Cal.
 
Ok, if I get things right, the Remple adaptor that would mount to the stock has bedding compound around the edge and a proper fit to the bottom shape of the stock?

you are going to be using this set up for some time? Why not just leave as is while you are using the rifle?

If you need another mounting plate, I am sure they are not expensive and Henry can supply.

Plan B would be to remove the bedding on the adaptor and start over which seems like a lot of work so that the plate can come off 'flat'... If you have multiple rifles you want to move the adaptor plate to, then start over.

otherwise, I would just enjoy it as is and modify later when there is a clear need.

Jerry

PS, if you cannot chip off the Devcon on a surface you prepped with shoe polish, I would learn how to use the release agent before trying this again or you will "glue" some other part together.
 
Mystic Precision said:
Ok, if I get things right, the Remple adaptor that would mount to the stock has bedding compound around the edge and a proper fit to the bottom shape of the stock?

you are going to be using this set up for some time? Why not just leave as is while you are using the rifle?

If you need another mounting plate, I am sure they are not expensive and Henry can supply.

Plan B would be to remove the bedding on the adaptor and start over which seems like a lot of work so that the plate can come off 'flat'... If you have multiple rifles you want to move the adaptor plate to, then start over.

otherwise, I would just enjoy it as is and modify later when there is a clear need.

Jerry

PS, if you cannot chip off the Devcon on a surface you prepped with shoe polish, I would learn how to use the release agent before trying this again or you will "glue" some other part together.
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Hi Jerry,

Close but not quite. The bottom of the forend on the Boyds is rounded and the adapter is flat. Without a Devcon shim the adapter would rock when under stress.

Most of this issue is resolved with the only remaining item being separating the adapter from the Devcon shim. I will toss it in the freezer as per the recommendations above. The reason I wanted the adapter/shim combo to be detachable from the stock is so that I can use the rifle in my Cowan pedestal rest from time to time without the adapter getting in the way. I have a number of mounting plates from Henry, that is not the reason for wanting to separate the shim from the adapter. The reason is purely aesthetic. I wanted to file down the rough spots of Devcon from around the adapter without the risk of accidentally marring the adapter.

Thanks,
Cal.
 
Wow...if this little glitch caused you to almost poop youself, you will probably eject all your innards through your bunghole if you duplicate some of the bone-headed gunsmithing mistakes I have committed over the years...:)
 
I know little of the products or procedures outlined in your post but after reading the posts regarding freezing the product in a freezer I can't help but wonder if using one of those wart freezing kits to freeze small areas of the Devcon at a time and chipping away might work well. Those kits can provide much more less heat than a freezer.
 
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I meant to say "can provide much more less heat than a freezer"

there's no such thing as cold, it's a lack of heat. I was playing off that a little. Glad you found some humor in it, that was my intent.
 
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We meant you knew you said what was it to do...just surely didn't want to do know what you said. :)

Actually, the wart remover idea is a pretty good one, I can think of several instances where it might have come in handy for freeing-up some badly stuck items. Extreme cold applied to a tiny, controlled location. I may try it in future.
 
jjohnwm said:
Actually, the wart remover idea is a pretty good one, I can think of several instances where it might have come in handy for freeing-up some badly stuck items. Extreme cold applied to a tiny, controlled location. I may try it in future.
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I figured that since using a firearm to remove my warts works so incredibly well that it was logical that using these wart removing kits could be equally effective for firearm maintenance tasks.
 
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