Thread: .30BR Rem 788 Chassis build

Next mission was to address the over all length of the bedding block. I knew when I started it was going to be too short but rather than waist a nice bit of billet (and machine time) I planned to extend it with a second block of alloy.



The second block was squared off and mated to the front of the chassis with some pretty serious aluminium epoxy adhesive and a couple of cap 4mm screws to hold it in place. The epoxy I used was some we used in the aircraft industry and it is crazy strong stuff. Once cured it can actually be machined as one block even without my use of extra cap screws, it dries as hard as the alloy itself.
I counter bored the cap screws quite deep as this section will be machined out to house the recoil lug.

The mating surfaces got a good scuffing to provide the epoxy with a good key to bond to.







Once cured and milled square the join virtually vanished and will be 100% hidden once duracoted.



From this stage it was time to machine the recoil lug and start trimming some fat and adding some shape.