Need Help Re-Installing Butt Cap

[3wt]

So while putting my 3wt together last week, I noticed the butt cap (not sure what else it would be called) on the reel seat had gone missing. Must have happened last time I used it.

So the good news is that it's a St. Croix LU and they're cool with sending me the part to reglue, but I wanted to try to do it correctly.

It's a friction ring uplocking system on a birdseye maple reel seat. I'm thinking i just need to sand the old epoxy off w/ a block to avoid rounding the edges, then reglue with some 2 part epoxy. Any thing else I'm missing? Can I use some hardware store epoxy? Any special cleaning I need to do?

Thanks in advance.

[Gavin]

Epoxy will work just fine...I usually use the 60 minute cure...its a bit stronger than the 5 minute stuff.