what glue?recomend

monty

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Hi folks,
The rear stud has pulled out of my tikka ABS stock, what glue would you recommend. Tried liquid steel which is an epoxy resin that lasted about 5 minutes any tips would be appreciated.

Thanks
 
Sounds like it needs to be properly filled and re-drilled. Then use a longer stud and fix it in with araldite. Rifles and scopes cost to much to not have it done properly, as well as the obvious safety issue!
MS
 
Sorry folks it's the rear stud for attaching the sling. What would you fill it with MS, I was hoping that there would be an epoxy resin out their suitable for gluing it permanently. Thanks again
 
Sorry folks it's the rear stud for attaching the sling. What would you fill it with MS, I was hoping that there would be an epoxy resin out their suitable for gluing it permanently. Thanks again

You could epoxy a brass or steel adapter in the rear 'hole'
Use a front machined stud in place of the 'wood screw' one!
Wow dementia really set in today...plastic, waste of time with epoxy then, better to make a screw in adapter...
 
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I have one of those stocks lying around and had a look.
Best might be to take off the recoil pad and pull out the ribbed section. Drill a 5mm hole through
where the stud is and fit a threaded stud with a nut and large washer and loctite.
If you are stuck I have a few of those threaded studs with a nut.
The T3 stock seems to be made of a Polypropylene material. Similar to what glue bottles are made of
so that the glue doesn't stick... Not easy to get anything to glue well to.
edi
 
Have a chat with a local friendly engineer who will probably have some 'Helicoil' inserts or 'Dodge' plastic types. See here:
http://www.helicoil.in/
You should be able to repair/replace you thread with one of these. You will have to find a suitable sling stud bolt first and then fit the suitable thread insert to suit. There are loads of these types of inserts on the web or evilbay!
Some more here;
http://www.insertsdirect.com/
Hope this helps.
MS
 
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I've used Araldite with success, but if that should fail...the helicoil route correctly done will work just fine. ATB
 
Have a chat with a local friendly engineer who will probably have some 'Helicoil' inserts or 'Dodge' plastic types. See here:
http://www.helicoil.in/
You should be able to repair/replace you thread with one of these. You will have to find a suitable sling stud bolt first and then fit the suitable thread insert to suit. There are loads of these types of inserts on the web or evilbay!
Some more here;
http://www.insertsdirect.com/
Hope this helps.
MS
If you put a helicoil insert in the do not hammer it in but use a small electric soldering iron to heat it up, then it will melt the surrounding plastic and you slide into the old hole then as the plastic hardens it will flow around to encapsulate the helicoil, thats how most plastic gets metal inserts usually of brass but I would really prefer to have something inside the stock located in fore & aft direction spreading the load something like a 3mm brass rod to as a T piece so it cannot have any load applied directly to the repair.
Martin
Martin
 
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