I bow to your specialist knowledge of glue suitability & stand corrected on cascamite for long term submersive use, but the point I was trying to put across is as you say pva is not suitable long term for gunstocking repairs, I agree with you on epoxy resin, but as the op has used cascamite I would like to reassure him that its more than up to the job,
Regards G
Unlike others on here, I don't usually submerge my rifles in water for any periods, (usually does nasty things to blued steel finishes too) I usually also finish them in either oil type finishes (usual and personally preferred method) or varnished, so I guess I will be sticking to PVA! It's served me well over 40 years!
ASM
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mmmm its had it me old son
Top job Sir
Kevin
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Daystate Air Ranger in .22
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A few years back when I was intending to build a wooden bench to support my Myford ML7, the old book by Thomas I believe, advised against using PVA to glue the bench together even though it would have all been bolted together as well. Apparently PVA is not stable in humid and low temps and would have caused the bench to deform and bend the lathes bed. It gave the name of the proper glue for the application which I can not remember and the book has also vanished.
A.G
Looks like a nice bit of wood that!
I hope you drilled the correct size pilot hole before whacking that big bad boy bolt in or it will split again - I would have gone for a hardwood dowel glued in!
Advice - don't drop it again!
ASM
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Don't know how this post got resurrected but still pleased with result. Checked it today.
By chance the little love that dropped it all those years ago is here over the weekend with his family.
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Hi
I bought a HW95 that had suffered the same fate, It had been glued together but with no reinforcement so I drilled a deep pilot hole then went over it partway with an 8mm drill to sink the head well down then drove a 2.5" phillips screw straight down! Gives me a bit more confidence to shoot it!
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I refinished the stock too as it was a bit light coloured for my taste, It was quite blotchy too- It's one of the smoothest guns I have though!!
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John
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I did a similar repair some time ago, but I used a bolt and a nut. That means that you don't have the lateral stresses a self-tapping screw sets up. You have to deal with filling another hole in the stock but the rigidity of the final thing is magnificent, spectacular and extraordinary.