Hello all,
I will be getting this rifle soon. It is sold in a Bell & Carlson stock with aluminum bedding block. From various reviews online from years past, it may or may not be "skim bedded" with hot glue.
NO 6. All stocks need pillars, even stocks with bedding blocks
This link has some points in it that make a lot of sense to me, particularly: "Both the H-S Precision, and the Bell & Carlson Medalist stocks have an aluminum bedding block with a machined bedding surface. Also, we know that our rifles receiver is a machined part. Since these two parts are both machined, it seems logical that when we assemble these two items, we should only have to install the guard screws, tighten them, and be done with it. This seems especially true with a Remington, where you are placing a round receiver against a "V Block".
But wait, is your action straight? Most are not! The heat treat process occurs AFTER the reciever is fully machined.
During this heat treat process, each receiver will warp in its own small, but unique way. This warpage, by itself, prevents a stress free fit of the receiver to the bedding block.
Accu-Risers and epoxy are not just the easiest way to deal with this warpage, but the most accurate way as well."
So my questions are as follows:
a) If doing this with his accuriser pillars, do I need to remove the bedding the rifle comes with or do I bed simply on top of it?
b) He coats the areas to be bedded with compound and then inserts the barreled action into the stock and tightens action screws to 10 in-lbs. I am imagining that some bedding compound rides on top of the screws all the way into the bedded action as he does this. Does the screw still screw back out at the end or is there a special procedure? I am also imagining that that compound riding on top of the screw will never move from that 10 in-lb location where it stops so how does the screw tighten further after it is hardened up there?
I will be getting this rifle soon. It is sold in a Bell & Carlson stock with aluminum bedding block. From various reviews online from years past, it may or may not be "skim bedded" with hot glue.
NO 6. All stocks need pillars, even stocks with bedding blocks
This link has some points in it that make a lot of sense to me, particularly: "Both the H-S Precision, and the Bell & Carlson Medalist stocks have an aluminum bedding block with a machined bedding surface. Also, we know that our rifles receiver is a machined part. Since these two parts are both machined, it seems logical that when we assemble these two items, we should only have to install the guard screws, tighten them, and be done with it. This seems especially true with a Remington, where you are placing a round receiver against a "V Block".
But wait, is your action straight? Most are not! The heat treat process occurs AFTER the reciever is fully machined.
During this heat treat process, each receiver will warp in its own small, but unique way. This warpage, by itself, prevents a stress free fit of the receiver to the bedding block.
Accu-Risers and epoxy are not just the easiest way to deal with this warpage, but the most accurate way as well."
So my questions are as follows:
a) If doing this with his accuriser pillars, do I need to remove the bedding the rifle comes with or do I bed simply on top of it?
b) He coats the areas to be bedded with compound and then inserts the barreled action into the stock and tightens action screws to 10 in-lbs. I am imagining that some bedding compound rides on top of the screws all the way into the bedded action as he does this. Does the screw still screw back out at the end or is there a special procedure? I am also imagining that that compound riding on top of the screw will never move from that 10 in-lb location where it stops so how does the screw tighten further after it is hardened up there?
