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<blockquote data-quote="25WSM" data-source="post: 1779949" data-attributes="member: 38048"><p>As a master gunsmith I have bedded 100s of stocks through the yrs and have used just about every one. The one I tried and never quit using is the score-hi product. The smoothness of it when mixing and application is spot on. If you can butter toast you can lay this in a stock. It stays put and if you need it a little thicker it comes with powder to stiffen it up. Comes with the best release agent I have used. Equal to clear kiwi. Which is amazing. Now for a bonus. It comes in side by side tubes for dispensing from an epoxy gun. No more digging it out of the container with pop sticks trying to get it even. Squeeze the gun,stir and bed. I won't use any thing else. The Richard video is a real good one I learned from it myself. Master gunsmiths don't know everything and I still learn everyday something new from this site. The only difference between the way Richard does it And myself is I set up my pillers a different way and set them in epoxy to cure stress free. Once the pillers are set my receiver is epoxied in just sitting on the tops of them. The receiver only touches the top of the pillers and nothing more. It can not touch the stock in any way. It has to suspend in epoxy. Best tip I can give you guys is to make sure your action has lots of wiggle room. The biggest mistake I see is guys who are bedding their own stock and they scrape away some finish in the stock and put the epoxy in. Then put the action in. Then squeeze the action down in there with the action screws. Clean up all the squish out and let it cure. Everything looks perfect. Got that fits like a glove look. Happiness enough to go around. Guys don't do that. Please don't. You may get lucky 1 in 10 times but that won't work for most jobs. It will how ever work for going over An aluminum block. These typically have slop and a skim coat helps. But I still only use that rear screw and no torque to hold the Action in. Have fun.</p><p>Shep</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="25WSM, post: 1779949, member: 38048"] As a master gunsmith I have bedded 100s of stocks through the yrs and have used just about every one. The one I tried and never quit using is the score-hi product. The smoothness of it when mixing and application is spot on. If you can butter toast you can lay this in a stock. It stays put and if you need it a little thicker it comes with powder to stiffen it up. Comes with the best release agent I have used. Equal to clear kiwi. Which is amazing. Now for a bonus. It comes in side by side tubes for dispensing from an epoxy gun. No more digging it out of the container with pop sticks trying to get it even. Squeeze the gun,stir and bed. I won't use any thing else. The Richard video is a real good one I learned from it myself. Master gunsmiths don't know everything and I still learn everyday something new from this site. The only difference between the way Richard does it And myself is I set up my pillers a different way and set them in epoxy to cure stress free. Once the pillers are set my receiver is epoxied in just sitting on the tops of them. The receiver only touches the top of the pillers and nothing more. It can not touch the stock in any way. It has to suspend in epoxy. Best tip I can give you guys is to make sure your action has lots of wiggle room. The biggest mistake I see is guys who are bedding their own stock and they scrape away some finish in the stock and put the epoxy in. Then put the action in. Then squeeze the action down in there with the action screws. Clean up all the squish out and let it cure. Everything looks perfect. Got that fits like a glove look. Happiness enough to go around. Guys don't do that. Please don't. You may get lucky 1 in 10 times but that won't work for most jobs. It will how ever work for going over An aluminum block. These typically have slop and a skim coat helps. But I still only use that rear screw and no torque to hold the Action in. Have fun. Shep [/QUOTE]
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