-
Legacy Member
Is this a good idea?
WARNING POSSIBLE BUBBA ALERT
Just trying something different with this already butchered rifle to try and tighten up the wrist face to the fore end. The wood face was covered in dirt, grease and grit and after cleaning all of it away the fore end became really loose. I tried slipping bits of paper in there, but after four slips it was still loose, so now I have other ideas: Galvanised steel insert between wrist face and fore end. Is this a good or a bad idea?
Attachment 89902
Information
 |
Warning: This is a relatively older thread
This discussion is older than 360 days. Some information contained in it may no longer be current. |
|
-
-
01-08-2018 10:42 PM
# ADS
Friends and Sponsors
-
Legacy Member
Filling the gap wont hurt anything, but you're best bet is to freshen up the draws.
Search through Peter laidlers articles, he has a comprehensive on the subject.
Last edited by jonh172; 01-08-2018 at 11:59 PM.
-
-
-
Legacy Member
I shimmed up the draws as far as I was willing to before this haha. Those Lithgow
brass plates are really easy to work with compared to just the wooden draws.
-
-
Advisory Panel
Looks like the end of the butt screw has had a close encounter of the crossplate kind not so long ago.
“There are invisible rulers who control the destinies of millions. It is not generally realized to what extent the words and actions of our most influential public men are dictated by shrewd persons operating behind the scenes.”
Edward Bernays, 1928
Much changes, much remains the same. 
-
-
Legacy Member
Yeah and was me that did it. Couldn't figure out why it wasn't coming loose. Stupidest thing I have done to date maybe.
-
-
But I bet you'll never do it again though!
-
-
Legacy Member
Nijalninja: You could also glue a wood shim to the rear of the forend which would have the advantages of looking better and allowing easier fine tuning by filing or sanding as you attempt to get a good bearing over most of the surface. Just one question, though: If you've already adjusted the draws via shimming behind the copper blocks, do you not already have some contact between the forend and socket?
Ridolpho
-
-
Legacy Member
Roger that is correct.
Ridolpho, that is now the plan since I sanded a bit off the fore end in order to fit this steel insert I made, and it is far from as even as it could be. I am now going try with wood. I may have sanded a little too much off of it for the draws to push back enough, and there was no room left to shim the draws. Silly mistake I know.
-
-
Top be honest, I haven't ever seen a fore-end that needs the rear to be faced off as you have shown in an ar5e-about way. It's always the drawers that have failed, believe me. The drawers are a simple patch-fix if you follow the simple instructions shown elsewhere.
You mention the copper blocks as being better all-round solution. Not according to my boss in New Zealand. He wasn't from the amateur enthusiasts stable of home gunsmiths either. He was the senior Armourer at the huge Northern District Ordnance Depot Armourers shop. He told me to get rid of the copper blocks for good mechanical reasons and replace them with hard wood patches with the grain running alongside the angled plane of the drawers. He could be wrong of course!
-
-
Contributing Member
Did it split the stock or at the very least cause the ears of the plate to bend outwards.
-
PM
