Steaming out stock dents

joeaf1911a1

April 04, 2007 09:36

Anyone with good ideas. I have been using a couple of water soaked gun
patches and a old soldering copper heated up with so-so results. Just
got in a couple of M-1 rifles that need some dent treatment on the stocks. I plan to strip the wood down, get some dents out and refinish
with Brownells M-1 stock stain. Would appreciate any helpfull advise.

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  p3skyking

  April 04, 2007 09:42

  Joe,
  Use a wet washcloth and an iron. Lay the washcloth over the dent and, with the iron on "steam", lay on! Might take a couple of pressings.

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  iwannausername

  April 04, 2007 09:45

  Wet wash cloth and a clothes iron. Ask the wife if you can use hers....

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  dheffley

  April 04, 2007 09:47

  Mikes method works great, but I picked up a small iron at a garage sale that was some kind of hobby tool for radio controlled airplane skin. The head is about 1" x 3/4", and it does great to isolate the area you want to work on.
  
  I have also used Sandy's clothes staemer, but if you tell her, I'm a dead duck![}:)]

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  TrinityScrimshaw

  April 04, 2007 10:05

  Steaming works great but do not do what I once did.
  
  I placed a small pot of water on an electric stove, and then placed the sanded stock of my pre-64 Model 12 Winchester shotgun over the pot. The steam from the pot was working well, but the phone rang. I laid the stock across the top of the pot so that I could pick up the phone that was across the room. I got busy with the phone call and forgot the stock for a moment. The water in the pot started to boil real fast, and the pot started to rattle. It caused my stock to slide off the pot, and it landed first on the red hot coil ring of the stove top before hitting the floor. Now I had a burnt branded area on the stock and another ding. The final product wasn't half bad, but it took a long time to sand by hand.
  
  Trinity +++

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