emery cloth is in the mail...along with one of those fancy "chamber-hone" things...found the 400 grit 30-06 one for sale. I suppose I could just drive the 10min. to lowes or Home Depot to get emery cloth, but then I'd have to put pants on. This work from home lockdown is developing bad habbits.
I did drill out the upper Buttplate screw last night, insert a 1/2 dowel piece, and re-drilled. Butt plate is nice-n-tight now, with slight clearance around it's tang. Silly me, I cut the down a bit long and then spent way to long with a chisel on its end grain leveling it out. I should have cut it a bit short, put plenty of glue in the hole, and tapped it level. All is well that ends well.
For reference...the screw's minor diameter is ~0.166 ish. I used a 5/32 bit = 0.15625. It was perfect.
I have a choice of buttplates...it came with a stippled one (I would trade the trapdoor for a smooth one and re-park it). I also have a NOS smooth, an early milled fine checker (not the NM meat tenderizer one), or a stamped Remington in my parts bin somewhere. I'm leaning toward the stippled one. I don't care about my parts queen being totally "correct" to the letter, I'd like it to have some character still after it's all purdied up. There is park over the stipples, so they were done before whatever refurb happened, and the plate saw some use after that to wear the park. It's a bit ill fitting since it has seen much abuse. I'll have to do some love tapping to get it to bear evenly on the stock. The trigger guard is milled, and I don't think I'll change it to a stamped one, and so won't use the stamped butt either.
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The new hole is in the middle of the dowel repair - can't even see it. I mixed a little saw dust into the glue that oozed out to hide hide it a bit. Need to smooth it out now that it dried, and clean up some that inletting black that remains.
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