Brass screws

[springfield art]

My bad; Blacksmith Bolt & Rivet is in Oregon, not 'down South' as I foolishly wrote. They sell round-head stuff old-timey like.

 

[springfield art]

I'm not looking for authenticity, just assembling with original. I figured slotted head might look better than Phillips head. Ain't no gun of mine is gonna to have phillips screws on them. They look kinda tacky (?) to me.

We're with you on that Phillips thing; they have no place in muzzle-anything!

 

[ord sgt]

all they have is Phillips head.

I have seen someone use Phillips head screws on a southern mountain rifle. He didn't like the steel slotted screws, so he replaced them with brass screws. To each his own.

 

[springfield art]

Who the heck was that Phillips guy, anyway?

 

[Greg Y]

Not sure if my hawken had an odd hole tapped or williams sent the wrong screw...but I made a brass one work.

 

[deerstalkert]

i use brass screws during assembly. disposable and less chance fumble fingers stripping threads , especially in locks.
i am ambivalent about brass screws in brass butt plates but like fire blued for finish. plus i have just about stopped using brass furniture.

 

[TechMoron]

This is a farming area. The local Ace Hardware is huge and has lots of things you won't find in a city or suburban store.
Loose nuts, bolts, screws, cotter pins, washers etc etc are in a ten yard long five foot tall cabinet of small labeled drawers with dividers. Plastic bags with a printed grid for listing your contents sit on top of the cabinet with ballpoint pens. Honor system all the way.

Same here.

 

[tenngun]

I'm not looking for authenticity, just assembling with original. I figured slotted head might look better than Phillips head. Ain't no gun of mine is gonna to have phillips screws on them. They look kinda tacky (?) to me.

I think track has them

 

[Encore50Cal]

Bees wax is great for screws that you don't want to break off.

 

[Crow Choker]

IMO I like a firearm of yesteryear to be as close to what any originals were, but I'm not such a stickler that I don't change lanes so to speak, go off of the reservation, and change/do things that are more pleasing to my eye. I'm finishing up a CVA flintlock 45 pistol kit I bought waaaaaay back in the late 70's. Have worked on it three or four times since getting it. The two brass machine screws that hold the fore end cap to the barrel had the slots so mangled from over the years of on and off I decided to to replace them. The metric thread/size of the machine screws were almost impossible to find, except for Phillips head. One online outfit had them but I believe 50 was the minimum number I could get.

After searching and exhausting about every place I thought and was told I could get them I thought heck with it. I bought some 8-32 brass machine screws and retapped the two screw hole on the end of the barrel. Had the taps. I could have gotten steel metric machine screws of the size/thread, but wanted the screws to match the brass end cap. Even on that Ol CVA pistol that I bought for around $50, not an expensive piece, not even today, but I'd know they were there. IMO ya gotta go with what you want in your firearms and how they look, no matter if bought ready to shoot or any build. I go the route what is pleasing to my eye, not for show and tell.

 

[Jappo]

This is what I'm putting together.

 

[tallPercshooter]

My dad was a master carpenter and he taught me to lube woodscrews with a drop of liquid dish soap before installing. Especially in hard maple or walnut.

 

[oldschoolhunter55]

This is what I'm putting together.

looks good