Offroad Gary Posted November 8, 2013 Report Share Posted November 8, 2013 Your thoughts/experience please. Im about to fix an aluminium pic rail to a tikka t3, will generally wear a mk2 10x42 but occasionally will wear a pm2 5-25x56.. Is it worth epoxy fixing the rail or will the screws be sufficient? Cheers in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brown dog Posted November 8, 2013 Report Share Posted November 8, 2013 Your thoughts/experience please. Im about to fix an aluminium pic rail to a tikka t3, will generally wear a mk2 10x42 but occasionally will wear a pm2 5-25x56.. Is it worth epoxy fixing the rail or will the screws be sufficient? Cheers in advance It's a mind game. Clue to the answer is in the fact you're asking. Only one way to kill the doubt (I glued mine! ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggersqueezer Posted November 8, 2013 Report Share Posted November 8, 2013 my pm11 is screwed on my t3 ,i was a bit wary at first but i completly forgot about it till i read this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazzar15 Posted November 9, 2013 Report Share Posted November 9, 2013 I've loctited the screws on my T3 300 winmag rail with no issues to date Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jagged 77 Posted November 9, 2013 Report Share Posted November 9, 2013 I have two T3's with pic bases, correctly torqued they've not loosened a fraction with heavy scopes on. Glue it by all means if it gives you piece of mind but you don't need to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ergid Posted November 11, 2013 Report Share Posted November 11, 2013 Your thoughts/experience please. Im about to fix an aluminium pic rail to a tikka t3, will generally wear a mk2 10x42 but occasionally will wear a pm2 5-25x56.. Is it worth epoxy fixing the rail or will the screws be sufficient? Cheers in advance hi I have been thinking of mounting a Pic rail on mine for when i use my NV add on ,is yours a custom made or off the shelf ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Offroad Gary Posted November 12, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2013 Mine is the EGW one, it came with the rifle but no screws, luckily a friendly forum member is letting me have some, he's just taking his time about it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tisme Posted November 12, 2013 Report Share Posted November 12, 2013 I bought a T3 .308 about three weeks ago and fitted a recknagel 20 moa rail. Torqued the screws up to 20 inch pounds and it came loose after 70 shots. Use loctite at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejg223 Posted November 12, 2013 Report Share Posted November 12, 2013 I fit rails by bedding, apply release agent on the action and use blue loctite in the screw holes. At first I only torque the screws to about half the normal tightening value and let the bedding go hard. After about 24hr I torque the screws to full value. This method avoids bending the rail if it does not have good contact with the action. edi ps, before tightening the rail with wet bedding material I mount a scope that has the windage turret set to it's middle value and find out in which left/right postion (play in screw holes) the scope will bore sight. I then tighten the rail in that position. This method saves a lot of dissapointment especially when zeroing scope with small windage travel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrelsniffer Posted November 13, 2013 Report Share Posted November 13, 2013 On one of my tikkas i have 3rd eye tikka rail and like above it once did start to have some play slightly so as well as screws had poxy added not moved since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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