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I have a LC Smith 10 ga. The butt plate broke clean in line with the bottom screw hole. None of the replacement butt plates are large enough to fit this big boy. Can the butt plate be super glued or glassed back together? Or what would be an appropriate adhesive. Thanks Craig

Craig, I've repaired these type of butt plates with a bit of Brownells accraglass with some of their black dye that comes with the package/kit.

Like Ken says, acraglass works well and another choice is Devcon by Permatex. It comes in black and you might get it at an auto parts store. Good luck!

Hide glue colored with chimney soot would be period appropriate.

Ken- I always seem to run out of dye before I run out of uses for it. I've found that model airplane paint (Testors) works even better when gluing plastics. A drop or two in epoxy will allow for an invisable joint. Works so well for me I've quit using the Brownell's coloring. FWIW

Cary

Craig,
Wouldn't happen to be a Syracuse gun would it? If so I would like to have the serial number for the records.

As for the break, I don't know if I would use hide glue, it is not water prooof. Any good epoxy will do and it would be ideal to remove some plastic (hollow out) from the back on both sides and put a filler piece in there and glue, epoxy that. Put crazy glue in the crack and let that sit and then put the filler piece on the backside and let it sit you might have to file it down to fit flat.
Put some release agent in the countersunk hole so that you don't have to ruin the old look of the hole, or don't worry the screw will hide it.
I would also make sure that the screw hole is opened ever so slightly so when you "clock" the screw down you don't put all the pressure on the plate.

Thanks Mr. Cary --- another useful hint that should be added to a "How to list". Ken

Another technique that works well on broken buttplates and recoil pads is to epoxy the broken plate to one of the thin black plastic or rubber spacers offered by the likes of Brownell's. Another 1/16" to 1/8" inch added shouldn't affect much as to dimensions, yet affords a platform to epoxy to.

I was once given a brand new Red Head pad (i.e. not ground down)that somehow got cracked clear through the black rubber backer. With this method, the repair was virtually invisible, and stronger in that the glue line was not only holding at the crack but bonding with the full pad surface.


Robt.

I have done as Ken Hurst as done and it is undectable. You can use the acrylic paints from hobby stores as a dye added to the AccraGlass. I use it all the time.