![]() I love the ease of clean up versus just about any type of glue that Elmer's offers but I just don't have the confidence in the bond versus a more modern glue that is available today. I use and like Loctite thin leachable Super glue and for other repairs their gel type. I would still recommend and use a modern glue. I am afraid I don't share the confidence in Elmer's many of you are expressing. Leave the repair alone at least overnight.Īs other posters have noted, a good wood-glue repair will not fail before the surrounding wood does. Wash your brush and bowl with hot water and soap.ĥ. Some glue will seep out: wipe it off immediately with a damp cloth patch.ĥ. When you think you have enough glue in every available opening of the crack, clamp the crack shut with a clamp with wide plastic jaws. You'll get a little help from the glue's tendency to want to spread into the crack, but you still need to work at it.Ĥ. Use a pointed paintbrush (a cheap Testor's from the craft store will do) to work the thinned glue into the crack. You only need to thin out a teaspoon-full and it's easy to mix it in a round-bottom glass cereal bowl.ģ. If possible, open the crack slightly with an old X-Acto blade.Ģ. Good Luck! BillĪlthough I don't think I would mess with that particular crack at all, if I were going to glue it I would use the procedure I used on an old Browning BPS stock that was cracked where it joined the receiver:ġ. Just some simple looking and thinking you will have to do to make sure that is a safe and good shooter. It should, if not the wood may have cracked because of those two metal pieces having the stock wood in the way and not making contact. Try and see if the recoil bolt itself (the metal bolt running through the stock) has a wear pattern on it from the recoil lug on the action. Some one mentioned that crack will not move any but I have had one that did and it resulted in a catastrophic cracking of the stock into almost two pieces so I hope they are right! The crack in that one ran parallel to the center line of the stock vertically so I kind of hope that one not only looks different but is different in what results from it. That crack may have done that for you already so consider that possibility too. ![]() If that is the case I would say you need to open the position that the action sits in the stock a bit, very little not much. My thoughts on the crack running forward is that action may not sit just right in the stock and that with the act of shooting has caused the crack to radiate forward. I use a thin super glue (Loctite brand non-gel) but if you have to go at it from the outside you may only be able to use Elmer's glue to make sure it can be wiped off the finish with a wet cloth. The biggest problem with it going forward (to my eyes it looks forward) is that it may not be possible to leach or get glue into that crack from the inside of the stock. Looking at the direction it goes I want to ask if the action fits tightly into the stock? I ask because they usually crack toward the rear when they radiate from the recoil lug. I kind of pale when I see a crack radiating in anyway from the recoil lug which that one seems to do. If you want to use brass or bronze wool or brush have it Oh and it usually will take awhile and a couple of times with that stuff. 4 oooo steel wool will not hurt anything with oil and I have used it for years.
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