Thread: Sling studs turning

How's the best way to stop sling studs from turning/coming loose. Both wooden & plastic stocks?

glue....

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

glue....

yup onto it araldite them in

jb weld

Originally Posted by techno retard

How's the best way to stop sling studs from turning/coming loose. Both wooden & plastic stocks?

Possibly non-permanent Loctite if you want to unscrew them somewhere down the track ?
( Disclaimer - never done this myself, just thinking aloud here )
One thing I have done once or twice on a wooden stock is packed the screw holes with some dense wood shavings so the studs took more effort to screw in. That worked quite well. Not sure if a similar approach would work for plastic stocks. Depends on what material the holes are formed with I guess.

Thanks for all the replies. Was thinking araldite. Too late for 1 on my model 2, it's already striped out. Might have to go to a barrel clamp for that 1.
Cheers Steve

araldite should still do it

Originally Posted by techno retard

Thanks for all the replies. Was thinking araldite. Too late for 1 on my model 2, it's already striped out. Might have to go to a barrel clamp for that 1.
Cheers Steve

If its the forend one thats stripped out, you can buy sling swivel studs that have a backing nut on them. Drill the hole right through to the barrel channel, drill a bigger hole to fit the nut in to, then screw the stud back through the stock.
If its the butt swivel thats a problem, you can epoxy in a piece of plastic tube like out of a ball point pen, or very small straw, then reseat your swivel stud once the epoxy has hardened. No need to redrill new holes etc, a bit of clever thinking, some epoxy, or araldite, and you can use the existing hole so it dont look all fugly.

yup some of the really good two pot epxoys work wonders and last

Originally Posted by Husky1600#2

If its the forend one thats stripped out, you can buy sling swivel studs that have a backing nut on them. Drill the hole right through to the barrel channel, drill a bigger hole to fit the nut in to, then screw the stud back through the stock.
If its the butt swivel thats a problem, you can epoxy in a piece of plastic tube like out of a ball point pen, or very small straw, then reseat your swivel stud once the epoxy has hardened. No need to redrill new holes etc, a bit of clever thinking, some epoxy, or araldite, and you can use the existing hole so it dont look all fugly.

Thank you. Will look into that. Forend is very thin so not much to work with.

Of its stripped, get some dowel is close to the size of the hole but bigger and carefully drill it out.
Glue in the dowel and redrill for the swivel stud

Fill it with aryldite or epoxy putty

I read about this on an american forum years ago. A guy based in Alaska had the solution which I won’t hunt for and link to, but can describe as I tried it myself and it worked.

As others have said, araldyte is the go. Check that the front hole doesn’t go all the way through, if it does, mask the inside barrel channel.

You will need matches and lots of paper towels, best to have the paper towels pre ripped, and a place to put the used ones.

Once the araldyte is ready, twirl a matchstick in the mixture and push the dollop into the hole. Repeat until the hole is full of araldyte.
Screw the swivel in, there will be overflow, clear it quickly with paper towels and unused match sticks.

Leave for 24h to cure.

Job done.

I like what you're saying there Longshot. Will try that. Thanks very much.

Cheers Steve.

Originally Posted by csmiffy

Of its stripped, get some dowel is close to the size of the hole but bigger and carefully drill it out.
Glue in the dowel and redrill for the swivel stud

Best advice. Did this on a Sako 243.