Source for screws?
 

I'm looking for a sideplate screw for a 1907 Dreyse pistol, not exactly the kind of thing one find at Home Despot. It's the same thread as a metric grip screw, only a bit longer. Numrich is sold out.

Could someone suggest a source for small, metric fillister-head screws such as these? I really don't want to buy an assortment from Brownells and hope that the one I need is in there.

Thank you!

Try PMing Luger doc, Tom Heller, on this board. Or contact him at the following:

Gun Parts Sales & Repairs
Tom Heller (Luger Doc)
P O Box 398
St Charles MO 63302
Tel 636-447-3006
Email- hellerarms@webtv.net

Some of you might cringe at this, but anyway...

I ran into the same problem with my 1907 Dreyse, but after having the gun sitting for months without a screw I finally broke down and re-threaded the hole for a standard screw just do get it done. I turned down the screw head and filed a new slot (Brownells screw slot fixture worked great for this), and if you don't know about it you won't see a thing. I can't recall the size, but the existing hole was large enough for the tap to go through without re-drilling, but still small enough to get a good thread. Re-threading is of course a bit unorthodox, but the Dreyse is not a megadollar collectible (especially not the one I have...) so I didn't feel too bad about doing it.

By the way, before I did this I asked Brownells and they don't carry any metric assortments. If you find out what the thread is I would really like to know. These guns were made before the ISO-system was introduced, so it may be an old, defunct standard that you can't find anymore. I wasn't able to match it to any standard metric thread anyway.

IIRC original German specs were actually based on UK / US specs.

UK specs, Whitworth thread.

The following link has your parts:

http://www.cds-ehrenreich.de/ersatzt/dreyse07.htm

Nr. Teil Preis
1 Verschlusshuelse 90,-
2 Gehause (ohne Nr.25) 90,-
3 Gelenkschraube 15,-
4 Riegel 35,-
5 Riegelfeder 10,-
6 Lauf (EWB) 90,-
7 Auswerfer 45,-
8 Auswerferschraube 15,-
9 Verschlußstück ohne Verschl.kopf 90,-
10 Bodenschraube 25,-
11 Verschlußkopf (EWB) 48,-
12 Schlagbolzen 40,-
l3 Schlagfeder 12,-
14 Signalstift 22,-
15 Auszieher 48,-
16 Federkapsel 40,-
17 Schliessfeder 22,-
Nr. Teil Preis (Euro)
18 Abzug 35,-
19 Abzugsfeder 6,-
20 Abzugsstange 45,-
20a Stangenhebel (mit Nr 20 abgebildet) 45,-
21 Abzugsstollen 45,-
22 Stollenfeder 6,-
23 Sicherung 48,-
24 Sicherungsfeder 30,-
25 Seitenplatte des Gehaeuses 48,-
26 Kopfschraube zur Seitenplatte 15,-
27+28 Paar Griffschalen -Neuf.- 31,-
29+30 Griffschalenschrauben, je 12,-
31 Magazin -Neufertigung- 35,-
32+33 nicht separat erhältlich
34 Magazinhalter 35,-
35 Feder zum Magazinhalter 6,-
36 Stift zum Magazinhalter 15,-
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