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Message started by Artemus on May 18th, 2017 at 11:54pm

Title: Re: OK now the fun begins, forearm repair
Post by Stretch32 on May 26th, 2017 at 9:12pm
I'm pretty sure that's the rifle I watched on GB for months. If it is, I almost stopped in TX on my cross country move to buy it from the store. I even made an offer on it but we never came to an agreement on a price. If it's the same rifle then it looks a lot better than the pictures he posted on GB.

As for the fore end, I also bought one from Mr. Price and found that if you cut the remaining fore end from the original butt stock (at the lower barrel band) and just butt the repair piece with no additional cutting the length worked out perfectly. I used Mr. Price's pre-drilled holes and, with a drill press, made corresponding holes in my original stock. From here, I used threaded brass rod for the smaller holes and a hard wood dowel that was "threaded" with a Dremel bit to pin it all together. After it was glued (using Acra-Glas gel) and pinned, I put the action back in to maintain alignment and zip-ties on the fore end tip for upward pressure then used an extra long clap (from butt plate to the end of the for end) to provide tight compression and a solid joint. I wiped the excess epoxy and let it cure.

It was a fairly easy project but I will say this, only use Acra-Glas (gel is preferred) for your epoxy since it works the best by far. Other 2-part epoxies just don't seem to have the strength or hold up to the shock of repeated firing. 

Stretch

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