Cerakote after a bedding job?

[Jayson]

As the title says. Can you bake a Cerakote job after it has been bedded? Thanks

 

[JohnKielly]

Any question that you ask of this nature comes from a thought that it will cause a detrimental outcome.

Whatever anybody says to you, you will forever have that nagging doubt, particularly if something goes awry later. I believe that it is known as a self fulfilling prophesy.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Can you not take it apart and then cerakote it? I dont think youll have a problem putting it back together if its done right.

Or use air dry cerakote

 

[Jayson]

no air dry cerakote. The concern that I have is it may loosen from the aluminum Chassis. Thanks

 

[tobnpr]

I always Cerakote after bedding- not going to risk any cosmetic blemishes on a brand new Cerakote job. Any cured epoxy bedding compound (and stock/chassis) will easily flex the couple of thousandths if needed to comply with the added thickness of the Cerakote-and it will have no affect on the integrity of the bedding job.

 

[Bully]

It seems to me that the OP is looking to Cerakote a chassis after it has been bedded. I can't claim to know definitively the outcome of that however I would defer to several 'smiths (that I'm friendly with) that would recommend Cerakote before bedding the chassis.
Paint
Bed
Assemble
Shoot
Good luck in your endeavours.

 

[mr.kirk]

I always coat a receiver before bedding. If it’s a stock or chassis that is already bedded then cook it low like a glock. The bedding should see 200 F, but may shrink to rated shrinkage of compound. Safe way to cope is cure with action in stock after staging cerakote.

 

[Dave Hull]

Hi there, we've done both, coating before a bedding job, as well as coating after a bedding job.
We've been doing that here in Canadia for about 4 years now, with no ill effects.

We bake at a lower temperature on stocks that are bedded prior to Cerakoting, and when we do barreled actions, we take care to mask off the recoil lug.
-D.

 

[yukonal]

If you coat AFTER the bedding job...you've changed the bedding job.

 

[eddief]

I have always bed after coating. You have to be more careful so you don't mess up the finish but it's not hard to do at all. Few examples

 

[Jayson]

well I can tell you it is not a good idea to bake after the bedding job! Ended up having to redo the bedding. Thanks

 

[Dusty Stevens]

well I can tell you it is not a good idea to bake after the bedding job! Ended up having to redo the bedding. Thanks

Did you bake it in the stock?

 

[Jayson]

dusty it was already bedded into an aluminum chassis. Thanks