S_O_Laban
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What excatly is this stuff? Found it seems on some older Stevens shotguns. Early synthetic??? A search on Dictionary,com revals......nothing.
Tenite?
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dfariswheel
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Tenite is an early plastic.
Unlike todays "engineering grade" fiber reinforced tough plastics, Tenite is a fairly brittle plastic.
It tends to chip, crack, and break, and once broken it doesn't glue well at all.
Unlike todays "engineering grade" fiber reinforced tough plastics, Tenite is a fairly brittle plastic.
It tends to chip, crack, and break, and once broken it doesn't glue well at all.
Preacherman
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Not to be confused with Tannerite... 
S_O_Laban
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Appreciate the response.
Does the stuff get more brittle with age?
And yeah.... I'm personnally familar with tannerite.
Does the stuff get more brittle with age?
And yeah.... I'm personnally familar with tannerite.
JohnBT
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I've never heard a good word said about the tenite gun stocks from the early '50s.
More than you probably want to know:
"The Process of Making Trees into Plastic"
www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Trees-Into-Plastic.htm
More than you probably want to know:
"The Process of Making Trees into Plastic"
www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Trees-Into-Plastic.htm
Carl N. Brown
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Tennite
I'm from Kingsport Tennesse home of Tennessee Eastman
Chemical Company and whenever I mention Tenite old
Eastman hands remind me that's their baby, so we all
know who to blame. Tenite was in vogue about WWII
when the military was getting all the walnut.
I own a Savage 94 single barrel shotgun with a Tenite
stock, intact. 30 inch barrel and feels like it weighs
four and half pounds. Just I start to shoot, I decide
that bunny is just too cute to shoot today. Not that
I dread the recoil of a five pound 12 gauge.
I have seen some early Savage .22/.410 over/unders
with tenite (or is it Tennite?) stocks: one had the
buttstock replaced with a wooden Savage 94 buttstock.
One was had a fractured wrist that I bound with
leather lacing. (the early Savage .22-.410 combo
gun shared stocks with the Savage 94; as the
combo guns evolved, they became the Model 24
and became more unique).
Unfortunately for owners of that odd Savage bolt
action that resembled an auto shotgun, there was
no wooden factory stock, just the Tenite version.
Tennite is impervious to any glue known to Mr.
Fixit and the only repair known to work is welding
with a soldering iron which is pretty ugly and only
temporary.
Oh, Tenite: good idea, bad execution. If you have
a Savage with Tenite stock intact unbroken treat it
as a curio.
I'm from Kingsport Tennesse home of Tennessee Eastman
Chemical Company and whenever I mention Tenite old
Eastman hands remind me that's their baby, so we all
know who to blame. Tenite was in vogue about WWII
when the military was getting all the walnut.
I own a Savage 94 single barrel shotgun with a Tenite
stock, intact. 30 inch barrel and feels like it weighs
four and half pounds. Just I start to shoot, I decide
that bunny is just too cute to shoot today. Not that
I dread the recoil of a five pound 12 gauge.
I have seen some early Savage .22/.410 over/unders
with tenite (or is it Tennite?) stocks: one had the
buttstock replaced with a wooden Savage 94 buttstock.
One was had a fractured wrist that I bound with
leather lacing. (the early Savage .22-.410 combo
gun shared stocks with the Savage 94; as the
combo guns evolved, they became the Model 24
and became more unique).
Unfortunately for owners of that odd Savage bolt
action that resembled an auto shotgun, there was
no wooden factory stock, just the Tenite version.
Tennite is impervious to any glue known to Mr.
Fixit and the only repair known to work is welding
with a soldering iron which is pretty ugly and only
temporary.
Oh, Tenite: good idea, bad execution. If you have
a Savage with Tenite stock intact unbroken treat it
as a curio.
My first foray into shotgunning was with "Pops" gun...a Savage Mdl 94B in 16-Ga with the aforementioned "Tenite" stock & fore-end.
Pretty darn light for a 16-Ga, and had the appropraite 'kick'...which is to be read as "Kicks like a torqued-off mule on steroids."
IIRC, it wasn't all that much heavier than my Nylon 66 .22LR.
Pretty darn light for a 16-Ga, and had the appropraite 'kick'...which is to be read as "Kicks like a torqued-off mule on steroids."
IIRC, it wasn't all that much heavier than my Nylon 66 .22LR.
Okiecruffler
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I've had one tenite stocked 311, didn't care for it. Balance was all wrong and it had kind of a "sting" to the recoil, hard to explain. Not to mention it's just butt-ugly. My son has a nylon 66 collection started, is that the same stuff. I like those rifles, but man are they hard to hold steady.
Carl N. Brown
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Nylon 66
The Remington rifle is actually made of Dupont Nylon #66
and is much, much better than Tenite. Lasts longer.
The Remington rifle is actually made of Dupont Nylon #66
and is much, much better than Tenite. Lasts longer.
Okiecruffler
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I thought it felt different. Still would rather have wood like the good lord intended.
sirgunsalot
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Tenite
I don't know if this is what you are talking about but I use to work in the plastics business and our plastic was called tenite plastic.
I don't know if this is what you are talking about but I use to work in the plastics business and our plastic was called tenite plastic.
VG
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There are several types of Tenite, all under the same family nam: acetate, butyrite, and propionate. It's used for everything from toothbrushes to appliance parts and rifle stocks. I'm nit sure which grades of resin are used in which application.
Usually you can go to the supplier's website and get a Design Guide that gives you applications information. Eastman, as mentioned, owns the Tenite name.
Usually you can go to the supplier's website and get a Design Guide that gives you applications information. Eastman, as mentioned, owns the Tenite name.
Clemson
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Wood replacement stocks are available for the Tenite-stocked Savage doubles. Check www.boydboys.com
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