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We have a group of small junk/harware outlets at flea markets and farmer's markets. My favorite is Lou's at the Green Dragon Farmer's MArket in Ephrata PA. I've gotten alot of material and tools for making accessories and tools for making guns and accessories at Lou's. A few months ago, I got a 15 foot roll of 600 grit emery cloth for $3.00. I got some 5/16 brass rod 10 inches long, some wooden handles, screw driver ferrules, and even some nylon plumbing compression fittings. Out of them I made loading/cleaning rods for my muzzleloading pistols. The nylon cone parts of the fittings work just fine as muzzle protectors.
He once had very long shank phllips screw drivers with 3/8 inch shafts. I heated the business end to take out the temper and and threaded it for a round jag that I made for my Winchester 10 ga blank cannon. I even got the cast metal wheels for my cannon's naval carriage at Lou's.
At these places you can get brass escrutchon screws or pins, odd nuts and bolts, etc. In fact the knobs on my back hoe controls were stolen and the replacements came from the old Burkharts metal surplus near Reading. That was a wharehouse of "stuff."
He once had very long shank phllips screw drivers with 3/8 inch shafts. I heated the business end to take out the temper and and threaded it for a round jag that I made for my Winchester 10 ga blank cannon. I even got the cast metal wheels for my cannon's naval carriage at Lou's.
At these places you can get brass escrutchon screws or pins, odd nuts and bolts, etc. In fact the knobs on my back hoe controls were stolen and the replacements came from the old Burkharts metal surplus near Reading. That was a wharehouse of "stuff."
