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    How to make it stiffer

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    I wanted to stiffen a plastic gun stock and give it a more solid feel without adding too much weight. This is what I came up with:

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    I carved a groove down the center of the barrel channel in the stock, placed a piece of 10-24 allthread in the groove, and used extended working time anchoring epoxy to fill it in and tie it all together. Then, I filled the buttstock with dense spray foam. The allthread, epoxy, and foam added 4 oz.

    #2
    Where did you get the epoxy? I might have to try this.

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      #3
      At Home Depot in the concrete section. If you have more than one plastic stock, I recommend to prep them and do them at the same time because the epoxy only comes with one mixing tube. I did two stocks with one epoxy cartridge and had some left over.
      Last edited by turbowhunter; 05-02-2017, 12:58 AM.

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        #4
        Thats interesting, looking forward to hearing how well this helps

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          #5
          Looks good! I figured this would be about the little blue pill

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            #6
            Originally posted by Pedernal View Post
            Looks good! I figured this would be about the little blue pill
            I thought the same thing.

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              #7
              Too bad you cant stiffen the main part of the stock where the action sits. That magazine well is big.

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                #8
                Good job! Interested to see the results on paper

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                  #9
                  In for advantages

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                    #10
                    It keeps the stock from rubbing the barrel when shooting from a bipod.

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                      #11
                      Very cool idea

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                        #12
                        Did something similar to this but I took 2 old easton axis arrows and epoxied them into the forend. I did however dremel out a grove going into the face of the recoil lug and then afterwards glass bedded the lug and allowed the bedding compound to cover about 1.5" of the carbon shafts. Added no noticeable weight, but made the forend extremely stiff.

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                            #14
                            Just something to think about for the future if you do any more is to actually drill and seat that rod back into the plastic block that is infront of the barrel lug aka where the bottom of the rod is. Drill in maybe 1/2 inch or so set and epoxy the rod let dry then add the rest of the epoxy on top. I have done several of these and they turn out pretty well just an idea...

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                              #15
                              I thought about that but didn't know if that area was hollow. It feels like it is solid though.

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