Quote Originally Posted by pdog06
I just got off the phone with a local gunsmith about this to see if he had any ideas. Very nice guy to talk to. He told me to bring it up and he can fix it for about $35.

He said he drills into it from the magbox side with his milling machine and basically cuts a horizontal slot in it, along with a vertical slot on each end. He then uses what he called a "T-bolt"(basically looks like a bolt/screw with a head on both ends) and epoxies it into this slot. He says the combo of the epoxy and the T-bolt will not allow the laminate to split any further.

So basically the finished job can only be seen from the magbox(minimal evasive surgery ), and is as strong as drilling a thru-hole and screwing or pinning it.

For $35 it cant hurt to try, and I'm dropping it off tonight if I can get done work in time. If not it'll be tomorrow morning.

I'll let you know, and try to get some pics of the T-bolt and finished job.
But the laminate outside of the T bolt area will continue to crack....unfortunately.