![]() The Brownell, brass, corrugated pins, with the addition of Acraglass, worked very well. #GUN STOCK CRACK REPAIR SCREW PINS CRACKED#I had a badly cracked stock on a T/C muzzleloader, right in the area where all the cutouts are. Best of luck, regardless of what repair option you choose. Brownells recommends a 48 hour cure time before shooting your weapon. #GUN STOCK CRACK REPAIR SCREW PINS INSTALL#I would use a single 3/32" rod, that would preclude having to install 2 pins and possibly splitting or damaging your lug. You could drill your pilot hole first, but I prefer to have the mating surfaces epoxied, clamped, and touching before drilling the pilot hole. After you have applied the Acraglas to the crack, clamp it shut and drill your hole for the repair rod. That is an Ordinance repair and would likely last the lifespan of the rifle. Should this ever fail, I highly recommend using the original formula Acraglas and their (Brownells) threaded brass rod(s) and drill bit kit. You'll have a repaired gun and except for the shine of the clear superglue, no or minimum evidence of your repair. ![]() It should remain clamped for 24 hours to completely cure. Clamp it immediately after application, a very thin coating is all that is required. ![]() If you are going to do a superglue repair, I personally would use Starbond medium thick commercial grade super glue. You must acetone brush all of the crack area and keep allowing it to soak into the crack until the wood is as clean as possible. Oh how I wish some of the recoil lug cracks and action bolt area cracks that I have ran into were that clean a repair. If the excess epoxy get on the wood, don't try to wipe it off, just let stand until it gets like rubber, then cut it off. Use plenty all over the entire area and DON'T wipe it off. Let the epoxy cure, cut off the head of the screw and the tip if you run it all the way through and file/sand the ends flush.Įither let the brass tarnish, or put a small drop of cold blue RIGHT on the head and let stand a couple of minutes to darken it.īefore applying the epoxy apply a coat of wax all around the hole to prevent excess epoxy from sticking to the wood. I found that drilling an under-sized hole through the crack, putting some epoxy into the hole and some on the screw, then running it into the wood pulls it together extremely tight. They don't work on oily wood and won't really get into a crack very well, which few glues can anyway. You can still buy it, but you may have to order it online.ĭon't use normal wood glues. I prefer to use a one hour epoxy since it tends to be a little thinner and it has time to sink into the hole better. Most epoxy you find in hardware stores today is the 5 minute stuff that sets up in about 5 minutes. Much tighter then clamping can do, and you don't even need to use epoxy. The wood screw especially actually pulls the crack together very tightly. Using either the Brownell's pins or a wood screw, drill the hole smaller then the threads. You can use a long, thin brass wood screw. ![]()
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