Maybe I just ought to put all my plan down so you can tell me everywhere I’m screwing up.
- Install barrel and headspace (when it arrives)
- Create at least .050” clearance in barrel channel. The more the better, I like a big gap.
- Cut spacer pads from plastic binder to place between receiver and stock to hold it off the stock about a business card thickness. Check to make sure bolt will still pick up the next round.
- Enlarge action screw holes in stock to 1/8” over the diameter of pillars
- Ring tape front of barrel so it lays in the middle of the barrel channel – left, right, up and down
- Cut and fit pillars so they fit between the bottom metal and the receiver on top of the plastic spacer pads using real action screws.
- Play-Doh all holes and put at least two coats of release agent on everything except outside of pillars and stock. Tape where needed.
- Take extended ¼” x 28tpi bolts, remove heads, round the sawn end
- Fill pillars with Play-Doh, center bolts in pillars, screw onto receiver. make sure they are touching the receiver.
- Mix epoxy (JB Weld)
- Put epoxy in the stock action screw holes using a tooth pick and on the outside of the pillars
- Put the plastic spacers on the stock and ease the receiver (with pillars and long bolts) into the stock.
- Make sure everything is still centered and tape down (no bottom metal)
- Make sure pillars are still touching the bottom of the receiver
- Do some clean up on the bottom with paper towels and Q-tips soaked with WD-40
- Don’t touch for at least 8 hours (overnight)
- Unscrew long bolts using vise grips
- Take receiver back out of the stock, get rid of spacers
- Do a little cleanup in the stock if needed
So there’s the pillar bedding. I’ll let it set up for a total of 48 hours before I start the next phase.
- Tape up outside of stock
- Cut some channels / drill holes / rough up inside the stock to give the epoxy something to grab on to
- Cut channels on the top of stock where the recoil lug goes so epoxy is not thin on top and front
- Create dams in stock in front of recoil lug area and behind rear action screw.
- Fill up magazine well with Styrofoam and Play-Doh
- Put at least two layers of tape on the front, sides and bottom of recoil lug – none on the back side that goes against the stock
- Tape up barrel nut and a little way up the barrel (past the dam)
- Put the long screws back into the action
- Fill all holes with Play-Doh and put at least two coats of release agent everywhere on the receiver including barrel lug, long screws and inside of pillars
- Test fit to make sure I didn’t create any issues with the pillars, barrel and receiver. Make sure there’s no mechanical locks that can happen anywhere
- Mix epoxy, fill barrel lug area, front and rear pillar area. Put a little on the sides in those areas too. Put some all down the sides of the stock in the magazine well area
- Ease the receiver back into the stock, tape with electrical tape, make sure everything is still centered. I should have a little epoxy coming out all along the top from the rear pillar area to the recoil lug area
- Do as much clean up on the outside as possible
- Leave it alone overnight
- Remove long screws and then the receiver from the stock.
- Clean up inside of stock
- Done
Is that reasonable? Forget anything?
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