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which bedding compound?
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<blockquote data-quote="Alibiiv" data-source="post: 1637406" data-attributes="member: 69192"><p>I have been using Brownell's Accraglas 2 gun bedding kits of years. I have had good results with the product, however I am thinking of using their gel for my next rifle. I find that the regular Acraglass is really runny, and....can manage to get in to places where you don't want it to get no matter how careful you are with damming the voids. I use the green release agent, plus I use their spray release agent just before setting the action into the stock. </p><p></p><p>I relieve at least 1/16th to 1/8th of an inch between the action and the wood where I want the bedding material to set, especially around the barrel and recoil lug. I clearance the wood away 4 inches in front of the recoil lug, as well as under the recoil lug. All of my rifles are Ruger 77s, they have a fairly large flat under the recoil lug, I use a Dremel tool with a spiral cutter to relieve the wood underneath the recoil lug as well as on the sides. There is an attachment in the Dremel kit that goes on the end to make the tool like a router. I super glued a 6 inch long by 2 inch wide piece of clear plexiglass to the bottom of this attachment making the tool into a mine-router. I will carefully use a 1.2 inch round drum sanding attachment when relieving the wood as I relieve the barrel channel. I always make sure that the drum is turning into the barrel channel and not toward the outside, otherwise the sanding drum can, and trust me will grab and gouge the channel; <u><em>voice of experience!!</em></u>. I recently have been bedding the entire barrel channel, floating the barrel just 4 inches in front of the recoil lug by using Brownell's "bed master tape" putting two layers of the tape on the barrel. When the barrel is removed from the stock there's a nice .020 thousandths inch clearance space between the barrel and the stock the entire length of the barrel channel. The bed master tape is .010 thousandths thick, I put two layers on at the same time by laying one layer out on the bench and then laying the second layer on top of the first one. Always try to trim the end of the tape going near the recoil lug square for appearances using a razor knife. I use regular isopropyl rubbing alcohol to remove the green release agent with good results. <strong>SMK1000plus </strong>has some really great information about bedding the straight section of the barrel on a wispy barrel, never thought of the barrel heating, swelling and changing POI. Great info, thanks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alibiiv, post: 1637406, member: 69192"] I have been using Brownell's Accraglas 2 gun bedding kits of years. I have had good results with the product, however I am thinking of using their gel for my next rifle. I find that the regular Acraglass is really runny, and....can manage to get in to places where you don't want it to get no matter how careful you are with damming the voids. I use the green release agent, plus I use their spray release agent just before setting the action into the stock. I relieve at least 1/16th to 1/8th of an inch between the action and the wood where I want the bedding material to set, especially around the barrel and recoil lug. I clearance the wood away 4 inches in front of the recoil lug, as well as under the recoil lug. All of my rifles are Ruger 77s, they have a fairly large flat under the recoil lug, I use a Dremel tool with a spiral cutter to relieve the wood underneath the recoil lug as well as on the sides. There is an attachment in the Dremel kit that goes on the end to make the tool like a router. I super glued a 6 inch long by 2 inch wide piece of clear plexiglass to the bottom of this attachment making the tool into a mine-router. I will carefully use a 1.2 inch round drum sanding attachment when relieving the wood as I relieve the barrel channel. I always make sure that the drum is turning into the barrel channel and not toward the outside, otherwise the sanding drum can, and trust me will grab and gouge the channel; [U][I]voice of experience!![/I][/U]. I recently have been bedding the entire barrel channel, floating the barrel just 4 inches in front of the recoil lug by using Brownell's "bed master tape" putting two layers of the tape on the barrel. When the barrel is removed from the stock there's a nice .020 thousandths inch clearance space between the barrel and the stock the entire length of the barrel channel. The bed master tape is .010 thousandths thick, I put two layers on at the same time by laying one layer out on the bench and then laying the second layer on top of the first one. Always try to trim the end of the tape going near the recoil lug square for appearances using a razor knife. I use regular isopropyl rubbing alcohol to remove the green release agent with good results. [B]SMK1000plus [/B]has some really great information about bedding the straight section of the barrel on a wispy barrel, never thought of the barrel heating, swelling and changing POI. Great info, thanks. [/QUOTE]
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