How To Repair A Cracked Stock

All as well often we'll encounter woods burglarize and shotgun stocks that have split due to use, misuse, or improper storage. Sometimes these stocks are victims of improper repairs, other times, they've lingered abroad, forgotten about for years.

While it may be possible to purchase a replacement stock, it will likely price more money than merely repairing the stock you have. In this post, we'll await at a shotgun stock that has a split traveling downward its wrist.

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For this project, I ordered the following items from Brownells:

ACRAGLAS dye
Multi-Vise with rubber padded jaws
Reusable syringes

Here is the stock and crack in question. It came into the shop on an older semiautomatic shotgun. Note that the crack passes through the centerline of the wrist and the hole that is used to secure the stock to the shotgun via a long screw.

Sometimes people try to repair these splits with a little forest mucilage and a finish nail. This isn't an arroyo I'd recommend, while some of these repairs will concur, they could fail nether use. Specialized epoxies are usually the best choice. Depending on the problem you are trying to correct, the add-on of small bore contumely pins can exist used to strengthen an area. In this case, nosotros are going to repair the split with only the epoxy.

I inspect the scissure carefully before deciding a concluding course of action. In this example, I inserted a screwdriver that was slightly larger in diameter than the hole in the stock. This allows access to the space betwixt the separate.

I'll typically use a couple different epoxies on wood stocks; Acraglas, Acraglas gel or Westward Systems. In this case I am using W Systems.

To help hide the repair, the epoxy should be tinted. I use Acraglas brown tint from Brownells, it simply mixes in with the epoxy.

To force the epoxy into the crack I am using a disposable syringe. Loading information technology is a little tricky. I've found using a razor blade to scoop up the epoxy works well.

I inject the epoxy into the crack to ensure coverage of the entire split.

A pocket-sized clamp is used to agree the newly glued stock together. I similar to protect the stock from the clamp with the apply of some sort of pad. In this example it is a few layers of built up tape. Often yous won't have parallel surfaces to clamp similar this, in those cases the part tin be wrapped with surgical tubing.