Gunsmithing Manners buttpad removal

[fryj00]

Anyone know how to get the buttpad off of a T6A? What fasteners are used...phillips, hex, regular? Even when I look down in the little slits (holding open with needle nose), I can't tell what kind of fastener I am looking at nor can I get any tool to "bite". Need to get this damned thing off...

-Bryan

 

[wburke2010]

I am pretty sure it is a allen head. When I had to take mine off I called Manners and they told me what size but I do not remember now...

Walter

 

[cannoncrossfire]

I have a T4 and when I went to Cerakote it I tried taking the buttpad off and had the same problem, I gave up (thinking what if it's glued on or something) and just masked it off and didn't bake it too hot - turned out perfectly. I had used Green fineline tape where the stock meets the buttpad and normal green masking tape on the bulk of the pad.

 

[BIRDHUNTER]

If you ordered it with an adjustable butt plate system, then it is a hex driver, I forget the size, sorry. If it was just a standard stock (not ordered with an Adj. butt plate system), it's glued on and needs to be cut off. If that is the case, send it to manners and they can do it and replace it with a adjustable one for just over 100 bucks. Pretty quick turnaround if they are not to busy?

 

[EXTREMEPREJUDICE]

I am pretty sure it is a allen head.

You are correct, unless something's changed in the last 6 months or so.

 

[fryj00]

Well, I PM'd with Thomas Manners and he tells me that the pads are glued on...which would be why I couldn't figure out what type of fastener I was looking at. I will probably send the stock back to Manners to have the LOP shortened. I don't want to mess with the adhesive. Sucks though cause I wanted to take care of it myself.

-Bryan