Repairing FX Cutlas synthetic stock

Posted by - piglet Nov/26/2009 at 06:35PM

Hi there,

I am from NZ and just got into air rifles. Started half a year back with some cheap 0.177 Kral air rifles, then got to a 0.22 Gamo CFX. The CFX was great but decided to get into PCPs.

So my first purchase was a 2nd hand FX Cutlas with a synthetic stock. Unfortunately, a relatively large part of the weaver rail (underside of the stock) got broken off in transport/courier - see attached pic.




So I am trying to find out how to fix the damage in case the courier company doesn't want to pay up for a professional fix or replacement stock.

I was thinking about using some type of adhesive to glue the broken piece back and strong enough to have a bipod attached to it. However, I am not sure what type of adhesive would be best with the FX Cutlas stock.

That is I don't know what the stock is made of. I am assuming that it is somekind of plastic but has some type of filling. The surface of the stock looks plastic but the inside is coarse and almost ceramic looking (i.e. tightly packed porous material and with a fine rough texture) and has some speckles of reflective material.

I suspect it is polyurethane with some kind of ceramic filler. So I am thinking about using Selley's Quick Fix Super Glue (a cyanoacrylate adhesive I think) to bond the broken part back.

I will be using a bipod on the weaver rail and wonder if the super glue would be sufficient enough that the piece will not break off again.

Any help/advice/direction would be greatly appreciated.


Cheers,
Teong.

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