Post by Tim Horton on Oct 24, 2021 10:32:18 GMT 10
OK.... So I'm likely have the worst carpenter skills on the planet... At a time my metal working skills were something else... Anyway...
A young guy brought me an older 1960s era bolt action, 3 shot, 3", 12 gauge shot gun.. Many would consider it little more than a "barn gun" at best considered against todays modern equipment.. It had a broken stock... As it were the stock was broke into 2 pieces.. This actually made it easier to work with in the long run.. Where the breaks came out to the finished surfaces they were quite clean lines on both sides.. This with a very small area where the wood splintered and was lost at the surface..
So to fix it as good as could be possible ....remember, this from my limited wood working knowledge... From the inside I drilled about 3 mm holes through from inside to outside on one half of the stock.. This made it easy to know where to drill without hitting an area I did not want or could not put in a screw.. I then put the 2 stock halves together and drilled the second half from the first half side holes.. This giving me strait holes clear through.. I drilled the wood placed on top of an old rubber hockey puck to keep from splintering on break out..
I plugged each side of the holes from the inside with a small wad of toilet paper.. Pressed tight in the hole near the center by the broken edge.. This would leave a minimum of glue to drill through once the halves were glued together..
Not knowing what else to work with, I used 2 part epoxy.. It said good for wood.. I mixed it well, spread it liberally and clamped everything tight.. Then 48 hours later.. I took the rubber bands and bungee cords off, gently chiseled and filed glue where it didn't belong.. Then drilled out the TP and glue in the screw holes.. I mixed a little glue, lubed the screws and put them in.. After another 24 hours, I cut off the ends of the screws, filled them flush and cleaned everything up best I could..
Luckily, the glue from my sticky fingers scraped off the cheap stock finish easily and I finished the stock with a little 5-20 wt oil.. Again there was only a small area where I had to build up glue to fill splinters from the break edges... It may not look good, but it is usable...
While at it, I glued a new more stable sling swivel screw in the fore end of the 303 Enfield... The old one beginning to come loose..
Either of these arms are not fancy, modern, state of the art, but tried, true, usable long standing dependable bush tools...
A young guy brought me an older 1960s era bolt action, 3 shot, 3", 12 gauge shot gun.. Many would consider it little more than a "barn gun" at best considered against todays modern equipment.. It had a broken stock... As it were the stock was broke into 2 pieces.. This actually made it easier to work with in the long run.. Where the breaks came out to the finished surfaces they were quite clean lines on both sides.. This with a very small area where the wood splintered and was lost at the surface..
So to fix it as good as could be possible ....remember, this from my limited wood working knowledge... From the inside I drilled about 3 mm holes through from inside to outside on one half of the stock.. This made it easy to know where to drill without hitting an area I did not want or could not put in a screw.. I then put the 2 stock halves together and drilled the second half from the first half side holes.. This giving me strait holes clear through.. I drilled the wood placed on top of an old rubber hockey puck to keep from splintering on break out..
I plugged each side of the holes from the inside with a small wad of toilet paper.. Pressed tight in the hole near the center by the broken edge.. This would leave a minimum of glue to drill through once the halves were glued together..
Not knowing what else to work with, I used 2 part epoxy.. It said good for wood.. I mixed it well, spread it liberally and clamped everything tight.. Then 48 hours later.. I took the rubber bands and bungee cords off, gently chiseled and filed glue where it didn't belong.. Then drilled out the TP and glue in the screw holes.. I mixed a little glue, lubed the screws and put them in.. After another 24 hours, I cut off the ends of the screws, filled them flush and cleaned everything up best I could..
Luckily, the glue from my sticky fingers scraped off the cheap stock finish easily and I finished the stock with a little 5-20 wt oil.. Again there was only a small area where I had to build up glue to fill splinters from the break edges... It may not look good, but it is usable...
While at it, I glued a new more stable sling swivel screw in the fore end of the 303 Enfield... The old one beginning to come loose..
Either of these arms are not fancy, modern, state of the art, but tried, true, usable long standing dependable bush tools...
