Bedding Release agent

[TwoTracks]

When did they stop making Johnson’s paste wax?
My local hardware store has some. But let me elaborate, my local hardware store is in the middle of nowhere and has everything from a bygone era

AI says around 2021.

 

[steve white]

Nathan here does a very nice bedding kit along with his how too videos. Which are great even if you don’t use his kit.

MatchGrade Bedding Kit - Terminal Ballistics Research

MatchGrade bedding kit, steel reinforced, ultra tough, optimum accuracy.

www.ballisticstudies.com

Last I checked, we couldn't get his products in the US. I would like to have his plasticine and particularly his fore end stiffening lightweight compound.

 

[4570bruin]

In a pinch I’ve used and had good success with automotive paste wax as well!

 

[fourfive8]

Whatever (fill in brand) of paste wax works. I’ve had and hauled around for numerous moves, a partial tin of Johnson’s for at least 40 years.

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

Hey guys,looking for a little help here, what are yall using for release agent when bedding your rifle stocks?
Regards
Mike

@Maskell Shotgun academy
I just use good old Vaseline
Bob

 

[Nhoro]

I worked at a place that did glass fibre reinforced plastic moulded parts for our machines in house. We had an old guy that did the casting and laying up of the fibre. It is a polyurethane resin. He would lay down several layers of Cobra wax- simple paraffin wax for floors. He would let each layer dry and then add another. After 3 or 4 layers, he would use a commercial latex based release agent and then apply 3 more layers of wax. I have done 3 rifles. I just used 5 layers of wax over the normal gun oil. Biggest worry is if the epoxy gets into a hole or join and creates a mechanical lock. Epoxy peels off oiled and waxed steel quite easily but an epoxy pin or bolt is going to lock it in.

 

[Grumpy gumpy]

I worked at a place that did glass fibre reinforced plastic moulded parts for our machines in house. We had an old guy that did the casting and laying up of the fibre. It is a polyurethane resin. He would lay down several layers of Cobra wax- simple paraffin wax for floors. He would let each layer dry and then add another. After 3 or 4 layers, he would use a commercial latex based release agent and then apply 3 more layers of wax. I have done 3 rifles. I just used 5 layers of wax over the normal gun oil. Biggest worry is if the epoxy gets into a hole or join and creates a mechanical lock. Epoxy peels off oiled and waxed steel quite easily but an epoxy pin or bolt is going to lock it in.

When I was working at a gun store I saw a timber stock that a customer had "bedded " himself as he didn’t want to pay us to do it, with a kit he bought from us, he didn’t apply the wax properly and didn’t block holes in the receiver, and didn’t rough or key the wood, then hammered it to get it unstuck, broke bedding out and chipped the wood quite badly, he expected us to replace the wood stock and rebed it for him for free as his stupidity was obviously our fault, I left him with the manager and went back to work, I believe he wasn’t happy with the outcome
Gumpy

 

[wvfred]

I had a friend glass bed a rifle he was building on a G33/40 action and forgot to fill in the mill cuts on the underside of the action...He broke the stock trying to get it apart.