Gun stock crack repair

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Pedro said:
Just a quick one: What sort of glue would you use to repair a small crack in a shotgun stock?
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Got a picture of the crack?
Often simple epoxy like blue Araldite from tubes works very well. Epoxy that needs long curing times are often the stronger versions. Advantage of longer curing time / pot life is one can take more time mixing, more time applying, more time cleaning up. One can also heat the area as well as the applied glue with a hair dryer which makes it more liquid to run into the crack better. Mostly there is a reason for a crack, gluing might fix it for a while however it might crack right next to it again, fix the problem or reason would be better. Small hidden reinforcements might solve the problem long term.
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Pedro said:
Just a quick one: What sort of glue would you use to repair a small crack in a shotgun stock?
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Use West Systems adhesive and Insert a wooden dowel through the crack as well...belt and braces. It will be stronger than the original wood.
 
All good info thanks.

It's just a crack that has been glued (not by me) before. I intend to take the gun apart and inspect it. To be honest, it hasn't been used more than once or twice since it was repaired and I wanted to see how it is and I'm anticipating what might need done, perhaps with another bit of glue on the inside. I can't see any evidence of a peg/dowel from the outside. It's a Sabatti O/U and compared with other guns has a pretty thin neck, which is where the crack is (was).

I might take the stock off and all is good. I suppose all depends how good the repair was done really. There aren't any replacement stocks for this gun available and to have one made is financially a non-starter, it's only worth a couple of hundred at best. So really I suppose it's make or, ahem break for this gun (sorry).

Thanks folks.
 
First clean out as much of the old glue( glueing to glue rarely holds) try get as much oil off it there's any present,if you can spread the crack slightly you can then tease some glue inside probably the best glue to use is gorilla wood glue my friend a professional stocker recommended it to me when i repaired a Browning auto stock ,epoxy glues tend to set brittle,after gluing bind the stock with strong rubber bands e.g. Tyre inner tube strips.hope this helps.
JB
 
Pedro said:
All good info thanks.

It's just a crack that has been glued (not by me) before. I intend to take the gun apart and inspect it. To be honest, it hasn't been used more than once or twice since it was repaired and I wanted to see how it is and I'm anticipating what might need done, perhaps with another bit of glue on the inside. I can't see any evidence of a peg/dowel from the outside. It's a Sabatti O/U and compared with other guns has a pretty thin neck, which is where the crack is (was).

I might take the stock off and all is good. I suppose all depends how good the repair was done really. There aren't any replacement stocks for this gun available and to have one made is financially a non-starter, it's only worth a couple of hundred at best. So really I suppose it's make or, ahem break for this gun (sorry).

Thanks folks.
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as you say its thin on the neck but i bet there is a reason its failed there see if you can remedy that first .;)
 
Just mended a hairline crack in the stock of my single barrel Baikal. I noticed that the stock was very loose and in attempts to find out how the stock came off noticed a hair line crack at head of stock, with some severe twisting was barely hair line. I just ran some super glue into it whilst twisted and then released and clamped. Job sorted.

Eventually found I had to remove the butt plate to access stock bolt so whole lot came to pices and had a good clean. Probably the first clean since it left the factory. Reassembled and ready to go.

Its my squirrel drey busting gun, full choke and has sling swivels so easy to carry. ELEY Magnum 3's are very good on high dreys. All for £15 second hand!

D
 
As much as the purists tout wood it seems that quite a few wood stocks crack,warp or break as seen by all the evidence online.

Another big shout for synthetics for me.
 
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I'm not disagreeing with you John but there's still an awful lot of old wood stocked guns around that have lasted a hundred + years or more. Just like with synthetic stocks endurance will come down to quality and design in the end.
I'm just wondering how tatty some of the modern synthetic stocks that have soft touch panels will look and feel in twenty years time after being subjected to the elements and various cleaning products. I don't however have any reservations whatsoever about the durability of all synthetic stocks as some will no doubt last long past when many of us have gone to Valhalla.
 
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