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Bedding a picatinny rail
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<blockquote data-quote="FearNoWind" data-source="post: 1199035" data-attributes="member: 50867"><p>Mike,</p><p>I don't know what videos you've watched but this one, IMO, is perhaps the best I've ever seen on this subject:</p><p></p><p><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6RopWI0-GE" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6RopWI0-GE</a></u></p><p></p><p>If you hold the rail in contact with the action by pressing down on either end you should, depending on which end of the rail to which you apply finger pressure, see a small amount on light between the action and the opposite end of the rail.</p><p>That's the high end and the place where you need to concentrate the bedding compound (I use JB Weld).</p><p>The rest of the instructions are pretty clearly described in the video and, if you watch it several times, you'll get the hang of it pretty quickly.</p><p>I've learned that a good quality wax (Johnson's Paste Wax) works pretty well as a release agent and that "Q-tips" make clean up a snap. I also pack the holes in the end of the rail that receives the full coat of bedding material with clay to prevent the bedding agent from plugging those up. If the do get a little of the bedding compound them they clean up pretty well with a propertly sized drlll bit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FearNoWind, post: 1199035, member: 50867"] Mike, I don't know what videos you've watched but this one, IMO, is perhaps the best I've ever seen on this subject: [U][URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6RopWI0-GE[/URL][/U] If you hold the rail in contact with the action by pressing down on either end you should, depending on which end of the rail to which you apply finger pressure, see a small amount on light between the action and the opposite end of the rail. That's the high end and the place where you need to concentrate the bedding compound (I use JB Weld). The rest of the instructions are pretty clearly described in the video and, if you watch it several times, you'll get the hang of it pretty quickly. I've learned that a good quality wax (Johnson's Paste Wax) works pretty well as a release agent and that "Q-tips" make clean up a snap. I also pack the holes in the end of the rail that receives the full coat of bedding material with clay to prevent the bedding agent from plugging those up. If the do get a little of the bedding compound them they clean up pretty well with a propertly sized drlll bit. [/QUOTE]
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