Wednesday came and went, as did Thursday, and I did not call PTG. After having let it stew for a couple days, I finally decided nothing ventured, nothing gained....Netpackrat wrote:Factory synthetic stock arrived today. PTG bottom metal doesn't fit... The mag well is roughly 1/8" too long for the opening in the stock. Because of the way the stock is made, I'm not sure it can be made to fit without weakening it too much, at least without glass bedding to fill all the molded in voids. I'm probably going to send the mag well back.
The good news is AAC obviously made their barrel to the factory contour, so the barreled action is a decent fit. The barrel doesn't free float but I was planning on a bedding job anyway. Looks like the pillars I ordered are going to be too big in diameter, so I will end up using stainless tubing instead similar to what I did with my other Seven.
The infamous Dremel... But like any other tool, it can be used for both good and evil. Besides which, it's not as though this is much of a stock; it's probably the cheapest part of the project, so far. If I screw it up and have to start over, so be it. I used a small sanding drum to do the bulk of the material removal, and finished with files.
Here is the mag well bottomed out against the molded in cutouts. There is still a bit of a gap between the stock and where the mag well steps out to overlap it, which turned out to be significant when I tried to put it all together. It's a bit of a tight fit in the stock, because as you will see in the next photo, I didn't want to remove any more material than absolutely necessary.
Yeah, I am going to need a bit of bedding compound in there. I was glad to be able to get it to fit without breaking into that void in front of the magwell.
Trial fit. I don't have my action screws yet, and the main one from my other Model 7 is too short (so the one I ordered probably will be too). Found that the mag well is too low (remember that gap?). If I push up on the bottom of the mag, it will amost feed. Looks like I am going to have to cut the inlets a little deeper, which is going to suck. Good thing I was going to pillar bed it anyway. I may need to polish the feed ramp some, also. The detachable AICS magwell may not even work out at all, in which case I'll end up going with the standard floorplate arrangement, and probably buying another stock to go with it.
I also ordered a different set of bases plus the stuff to counterbore them to take the stupid oversize 8-40 screws that the receiver is drilled and tapped for. If that doesn't work out it looks like I will have to spend way more money on a custom base.