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Devcon set time

I am looking for opinions on how long you should let Devcon set before shooting a rifle. I do my cleanup and machining the day after bedding but am wondering how long it takes for the bedding to cure completely to where the rifle is good to shoot. I am using Devcon 10110.
Thanks for any help.
 
I set the rifle in the bedding, break out the next day and trim everything up, then let stock sit with the action out for at least another 24hrs before fitting the action back in the stock and shooting. So basically 2 days. I don't know if that's too long or not, but it has always worked for me.
 
For skin bedding all above is good.

With my cz750 i did glas and pillar at the same time, allot of devcon used.
So to be shure all was hardened around the pillars, i let my stock to breath for 2 weeks.
Also a nice artical here on this site about it, (stress free pillar bedding).
Did the same way.
2 weeks maybe a bit overdone, but still young and other rifles to play with.

greetings from the Netherlands Johan

Couple years ago picture taken with a petato, bit blurish
 

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Cure time depends greatly upon the temperature of the material and project. For every 10 degrees you raise the temperature of the project above 75 F, the cure time is cut in half. 16 hours becomes 8, etc. At the 85-90 degree typical temp in my shop on a summer morning, after 2 1/2 hours it's cured enough to remove action from bedding. Trim the epoxy flash while it's green and then back together for another couple of hours. Ready to shoot that afternoon. If I really want to rush it, I'll "hot box" it for two hours at 150 F and cut the total production time to a few hours while post curing (tempering) it in the process.

The three most important things to know about epoxies are, temperature, temperature, temperature.
 
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The three most important things to know about epoxies are, temperature, temperature, temperature.
Of course temperature is important and I hear what you're saying, but I'd say more first-timers get in trouble by not using the proper mix ratio and/or failing to mix the components thoroughly.
 

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