Devcon plastic steel putty or plastic steel epoxy for bedding?

[thefitter]

I have used the putty on a new bedding job but need to skim bed a rifle. I have a bunch of tiny pockets created to help hold the skim to the original bedding, and think that the smoother consistency of the epoxy will flow into those small pockets better than the putty, but I'm wondering if the epoxy is too thin and will run.

Thanks

 

[Dusty Stevens]

I have found if it dont run youll get voids. Just control the run best you can. The universal bedding devcon is 10110

 

[thefitter]

I have found if it dont run youll get voids. Just control the run best you can. The universal bedding devcon is 10110

Yeah, that's the putty. What about the 52345 Plastic steel epoxy? I have used that on other small repairs and it seems a little smoother than the putty. Also when it sets up it has a glassy/ceramic hardness to it kind of like Simpson Strong Tie epoxies. I have only seen it in small tubes like JB weld.

Thanks

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Never used it. Like i said i prefer em a tad runny to fill in good. Jb weld, marine tex and 10110 devcon is the consistency im lookin for. Anything thicker im not gonna use. On br guns i sometimes use the aluminum devcon and on my personal guns i use the titanium with microbaloons. I used to use the west system stuff with kevlar floc but its even runnier than all the above. Sorry i cant help im just not familiar

 

[tightneck]

I find JB weld runnier than Devcon or Marine Tex, and feel it works best for skim jobs. On glue ins, I bed with Devcon 10110 or MT, then glue with JB. Of course if you have a Roy Hunter stock where the inlet is perfect, there's no need to bed. Just glue in directly with JB. Most stocks have inletting voids too deep for me to not do the pre bed first.

 

[JohnKielly]

I've used Araldite K 138 for some time, ever since a gunsmith acquaintance pointed out that it seemed the most impervious to cleaning solvents.

 

[thefitter]

Following up I never did get even a remotely definitive answer to the differences between the two products. Devcon "tech support" is seriously not. The "tech" who had a reading compression disability could not quantitate any differences other than the distribution points for each product??? The only information I got was that Plastic steel can supposedly be thinned with acetone, but I'm not sure if I can trust it.

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