Best Glue/ Epoxy for Repairing Enfield wood

[WarPig1976]

There WILL be some adhesion of extruded glue binding the rubber strips to the timber,

Dust the rubber heavily with talcum powder it acts as a release agent. Talcum powder is also excellent for removing sand from your feet at the beach too.

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[enfieldshooter]

With thirty years experience as a stock maker and repairer in NZ I have only ever used 1 product. It is the West System 5:1 Epoxy. It is a gel for fibre glass and you mix a powder filler and pigment with it to match whatever you are gluing. They glue ocean going racing yachts together with it and I have never had it fail on me yet. To clean up the wood first use electrical contact cleaner as it leaves no residue behind. If some one has used PVA glue before you get there you will have a problem with any glue. I am usually the second guy to try and fix it and removing the previous attempt is the hardest part.

[Seaspriter]

West System 5:1 Epoxy

I can attest to the West Epoxy System. It is designed to get deep into the wood pores and hold under intense pressure and stress.

[AD-4NA]

I am a big fan of West System epoxies for cycling and marine use, but the heat deformation temperature (NOT failure point) is only about 120 degrees while the ultimate glass transition temperature is only 120-140 degrees (F)! I know most of us don't really plan on rapid firing our rifles as much as envisioned originally but a handguard must get hotter than that...

So maybe I'll concur that wood glue is for wood.