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No 1 MkIII bedding
HELP! I'm bedding a No1 MkIII with a heavy barrel, and I'm about to lose it!
The wood is off a range rifle that it fitted beautifully but it sits off to the right hand side of the barrel channel. So I pack the back of the wood to the collar, and try to shift it by shimming the draws but still. I've had this problem and sorted it out with numerous no4's but I'm stuffed if I can figure this one.
I don't want to touch glass with this one, seems there are heaps of instructions for no 4's but no1's I can't get information.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
P.S. Wood seems straight
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11-14-2009 03:06 AM
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tbonesmith,
i am not an expert on No.I, but for the bedding of my No.4`s i do it this way:
Make sure that the wood under and beside the action and the chamber has a little space for the acryl paste. Than make 2-3 spacers out of plastic or cardboard. With that you can fix the barrel in the forestock. The No. I has a spring under the action wich should add pressure to it, make sure that it can work. Than add some separating wax to the action and fill the acrylc paste in the forestock around the action and app. 1" in front of the chamber. Now take the barrel and set it in the forestock, complete it with upper hanguard and nosecap and tighten the screws. After the acryl is hardened remove the barrel and remove also the acryl that was too much. Now you have to look that the barrel is free in his channel, normally it is. After assemblage the rifle you have to do a few shots till all is seatened. Controll the screws and normally it works.
So that is my way to make a bedding, but i dont know if this will help you.
Good luck!
Regards
Gunner
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Cheers that's how I'd normally do it too, but I want to do it without any glass or epoxy, and it seems a bit different to a no4 in that when I put the action in the stock having removed the brass or copper reinforcement on the draws ie so it's loose, I can't get the barrel to centre by packing the collar/rear of forewood, instead the whole forend will move forward . No 4's will tend to "pivot" with packing. I don't want to butcher the stock, I want this to be a professional job, in timber, even though it's more difficult.
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That`s indeed a difficult way to do it out of wood. In that case i have to admit, that i have no experiences how to do it. Sorry !
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Gunner
Last edited by gunner; 11-14-2009 at 07:31 AM.
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I have just gotten an Ishapore 2A1 and wish to glass bed the action. Are there any specific instructions for that or the No.1 Mk.iii available on line? I would like illustrated directions, if possible. Thanks.
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Thanks for that, I figured it out and the problem was that there was other contact on the barrel that disallowed proper centering(I'd checked many times for it and couldn't find the contact point until I blacked the barrel so it would mark the wood) , once that was rectified, the standard steps in bedding(like a no4) yielded a very good bedding job in wood.
I was very pleased with the result.
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Isn't it funny, how hard you can look for precisely the problem you have(ie. undue barrel/body interference on the fore wood), and not detect it, until after you've excluded it by checking many, many times.
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