[TheForge] Stuh-hooopid question time...

[Washington, Aubrey O.]

As others have said, I have had good results using the watery CA glue on tight cracks in wood.  But, I have mainly used it on unfinished wood with open pores.  The problem you may run into is gun oil soaked into the wood.  I have no idea how much of a problem this will be for you.

Aubrey

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From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net [theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Andrew Vida [osan at netlabs.net]
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 5:51 PM
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Subject: [TheForge] Stuh-hooopid question time...

I have a problem.  No, that THAT one, another one.

I have another gun stock to repair (wood)  It is a crappy old Stevens
single barrel break action.  This pattern is notorious for cracking
where the stock meets the back of the action, usually because things are
a wee bit too tight.  I've filed the mating wood surfaces down a few
thousandths and now need to glue the splits back together.

Ordinarily, I would use Acraglass to affect this repair, but the splits
are very narrow.  I don't know any way to get the Acraglass resin into
the narrow crevice (anyone have any suggestions?), so I was thinking of
cyanoacrylate.  My question is this: what will thin cyanoacrylate so I
can make it nice and watery so that it will fully fill the crack?

If anyone knows a way to get Acraglass into small crevices like this,
I'd be very happy to hear it.

Thanks.

        -Andy
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