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I've used West System to bed a bunch of rifles. It all started when faced with a project and needing a fresh batch of Brown-"give me all your money"-ell's goop and the drums of West System in the corner of the shop caught my eye. Not a lick of worry/issues with the stuff - but, as a disclaimer I never bedded anything nastier than .30-06's with it as magnums don't have, and never will have, a useful place in my life.

Acrsglas and Acraglas Gel....both good stuff! Have used it for 20 + years like many on this thread.

There is certainly nothing wrong with its stability. The stuff dries solid as a rock. The Gel version is really easy to work with. What’s not to like? Just follow the directions and it’s fool proof.

Sounds like the original poster’s gunsmith knows a thing or two about bedding rifles.

Leftybolt

Old school still works.

My feelings and experience exactly!!

Acraglas Gel is my go to. I Steel Bed the lug on big boomers.

DF

HI All,
I am new to this site, my first post I live down under
Buying acraglas in Australia is frightfully expensive I I have made up my own using every day epoxy resin, fumed silica powder called Carbosil and Powdered stainless steel, it cures as hard as could be expected so far so good. My steel bench has 1/4 plate and I had a dallop left over and it had cured on the bench, it resisted a savage blow from a hammer. I had expected it to disintergrate and break the bond on the Bench it did not. I do not used the stainless steel when filling up a barrel channel just use it around the recoil lug
I usually throw in a little brown dye to get it away from the silver colour
cheers Vaughn G

I forge and make a lot of knives. When i need a solid connection, i use acraglas and have had great results. I began using it for this application because i had good luck with it when bedding firearms.

Acraglass is good. I’ve used in many years ago, but it’s nothing more than thickened epoxy and way overpriced. Any good industrial epoxy will do the same. Avoid fast setup stuff.
The closest thing to AG I’ve seen is epoxy adhesive from FGCI in St Pete. Seems identical. At a tiny fraction of the price. Wouldn’t be surprised if Bnells bought it in bulk & repackaged it.
As for strengtheners, metals don’t work nearly as well as fiberglass floc or better yet, long carbon fibers. Silica or microspheres etc, weaken it. Good for fairing or filling a void in a Kevlar stock before painting as it easy to sand with those in it. FGCI also has a good variety of epoxy pigments you can mix to match your stock color.

I like Acraglas Gel, but have used regular Acraglas, J-B Weld, and Marine Tex.

I have fixed several broken stocks with Acraglas and Acraglas Gel, very useful stuff.

IMO, there is no one best, at least not in the sense of one type fits all.

The nice thing about the "runny" original Acraglas is that it sets up in thin layers, something not true of all epoxies. Great for surface or paint coats over the main bedding.

If you want the very finest, strength, longevity, impervious to oils and solvents, vibration, shock loading etc...get your hands on "Chockfast" 604. Machinists and marine engineers etc have used it almost exclusively for years for the final bedding of marine engines, reduction gear boxes, pumps, compressors, shaft pillow blocks. It's a 3 component system. I don't know how small of quantity they sell, I used it in pails...a bit much for the hobbyist. I once had a hydraulic winch spline drive (225 hp) strip out, I cobbled the stripped adapter with 604 and with care it made it through the voyage.

I use that mostly and no complains

I have had good luck with Acraglass Gel on quite a few rifles, however I did use a kit from Score High that had an epoxy that I like even better. It was much more like a soft putty and make working with it much easier.

The prime purpose for me is to accurize a rifle

All I’ve ever used is Acraglass and fiberglass flock I’m not changing

As per Al Nyhus's post about flexibilty, Accraglas was developed when wood stocks were still common, and the that flexibility is important. But, all composite/tupperware stocks expand and contract with temperature, and having a bedding compound that accommodates that is probably a good thing too.

There's lots of good bedding compounds/epoxy out there, I have a Remmy tupperware stock that I Accraglas bedded 28 years ago, and just changed out the stock last year, the bedding is fine--and tupperware stocks are the hardest to get anything to stick to.

I have used more Acragel than any other bedding though.

Al,
I've always wanted to know how a guy gets a glued in stock off the barreled action--judicious use of a chainsaw?

I keep Accraglas around just for that purpose.

Just checked, Brownells has been out of Acraglas and Acragel since early summer, still are.

Another supply chain victim, I suppose.......