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Thanks for the pics of your bedding job. However, i do have a question: When making the cast epoxy pillars, did you drill out the original stock screw hole, fill in the hole with epoxy, and then inserted a waxed action screw into the mixture, stall stock on the action & gently tightened the action screws. After the epoxy hardened, removed the action screws and did a little cleanup ????? So the hole through the cast pillar was made by the action screw and not a section of tubing ????
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Basically correct. I must have left some wood under the front screw escutcheon, I don’t remember how I did that. Could have used two drills, one almost the escutcheon size, one a lot bigger. Bigger hole on top.
I removed the raised area in the forend so the barrel would be free floating and not put any torque on the action as the pillars were curing. I did this before drilling and casting pillars.
I put tape around the screws and liberally coated them with Johnson paste wax. As shown in these Ruger M77 action screws.
While the epoxy is still drillable, I will ran a drill bit through to clean up the channel and remove any interference between the pillar and the screw.
After the pillars were cast I used my Dremel tool and just routed out a bunch of wood. The strength and stiffness comes from the epoxy compound.
I used Bisonite because I have a bunch. The stuff pours well. I have cast pillars from Tex Marine a much thicker epoxy.