You should see the bolt hole for the mounting bolt. I also bought a similar product from loctite, both slow curing (I am slow moving) times & 3k+ psi tensile when fully cured. I am no expert on stock repair but I have used a lot of C/A glue and I bet a few drops of thin C/A put into those cracks and wrapped or clamped would stop. Step 1 Remove Mounting Bolt Remove the stock so you dont damage the metal and bluing of the shotgun. How To Fix Cracked Rifle Butt Wood Stock Written By Martin Abouter Wednesday, FebruAdd Comment Edit. I also used reinforcing brass rods that were available from Brownells. Home How To Fix Cracked Rifle Butt Wood Stock. It will leave a glue line but any glue will leave a line. It is the strongest glue for wood that there is. Some distinguished members here have used devcon steel epoxy with success, but in the product lit it doesn’t mention WOOD, so I chose another devcon p/n w/similar tensile strength that mentions wood as the 1st material on the list. When I was a stock maker I always used West Systems epoxy. I’d use acra glas, but new federal regs have banned a critical ingredient, & almost all flavors of that are currently NLA. ![]() The 2nd stock is a ‘37-‘39 Borsigwalde (I believe) that has the beginnings of recoil lug setback, barely visible from the outside, but the chunk of laminate directly behind the lug has broken out, but isn’t free to remove, it’s still captured, though I can move it a 1/16” or so front to back. I’ll try the rot eliminator there, as the gap is very narrow. I have 2 stocks that need work, a ‘43 Sauer just cracked at the trigger web, pretty clean wood, I’ve dripped some acetone through the crack to flush out anything there. I haven’t found ‘git rot’ anywhere near me & I hate to pay as much for shipping as the item, so I bought some PC brand “Rot Eliminator”, same idea as git rot but another maker. How To Fix a Broken Gun Stock With Wood Glue: Easy Repair & Glueing of a Cracked Fore End Grip Sportsman 101 3.75K subscribers Subscribe 72K views 6 years ago How to fix a broken gun. (& anything else was junk) He used a bit of compressed air to drive the epoxy further into the crack. If youre not concerned with looks then you should try and get some glue or epoxy into the crack and then put a brass screw into it to synch it tight. In a thread I saw on gunboreds, the guy used “git rot” brand, said it worked great. It may not fail now but eventually it will. ![]() Bending stock for cast is a usual suspect for cracking, especially on highly figured wood. In your case, it went 1-1/2', thats something needs to be fixed and bedded by a stock maker who knows how to deal with it. There are some different products intended for wood rot repair on boats that are 2 part & quite thin, so as to creep into cracks & soak through rotted wood before curing. And its an easy 150175 fix/bedding by a good stock maker, dont lose sleep over it. This is what a 70 year old crack with 70 year old electerical tape looks like before repair.(they made really good tape. ND 1889‘s stock looks pretty greasy, degreasing it effectively will matter more than choice of epoxy, IMO.
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