Grip Screws

uscavman · 08-18-2012, 05:34 PM

I have a 1916 DWM. One of my grip screws is dark and am assuming it is blued the other looks as if it is brass. What is correct for this luger. Couldn't find anything on screws. Thanks

alanint · 08-18-2012, 05:40 PM

No Luger screw was ever brass. Both should be blued steel. Tom Heller, (Luger Doc) should have a replacement screw for you.

uscavman · 08-18-2012, 06:06 PM

Thanks. That's what I figured but wanted to make sure. I will contact Tom. How do you tell an original from a reproduction. I read that Erfurt were marked but DWM weren't.

Lugerdoc · 08-18-2012, 06:31 PM

Cavman, I just send you a PM re the grip screws. The repros will be more the Mauser style, flatter than the DWMs and hot dip blued. The orig finish of the DWM screw was a fire blue, like most of the flat spring on the pistol. Erfurt discontinued inspector marking their grip screws, sometime in 1916. TH

08-18-2012, 05:34 PM	#1
uscavman User Join Date: Jul 2012 Posts: 36 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Grip Screws I have a 1916 DWM. One of my grip screws is dark and am assuming it is blued the other looks as if it is brass. What is correct for this luger. Couldn't find anything on screws. Thanks

08-18-2012, 06:31 PM	#4
Lugerdoc Patron LugerForum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: POB 398 St.Charles,MO. 63302 Posts: 5,089 Thanks: 6 Thanked 737 Times in 484 Posts	Cavman, I just send you a PM re the grip screws. The repros will be more the Mauser style, flatter than the DWMs and hot dip blued. The orig finish of the DWM screw was a fire blue, like most of the flat spring on the pistol. Erfurt discontinued inspector marking their grip screws, sometime in 1916. TH __________________ Tom Heller POB 398 ST.Charles, MO. 63302 Tel 636-447-3006 lugerdoc@charter.net

08-18-2012, 05:40 PM	#2
alanint User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Marco Island, Florida Posts: 4,867 Thanks: 1,685 Thanked 1,917 Times in 1,193 Posts	No Luger screw was ever brass. Both should be blued steel. Tom Heller, (Luger Doc) should have a replacement screw for you.

08-18-2012, 06:06 PM	#3
uscavman User Join Date: Jul 2012 Posts: 36 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Thanks. That's what I figured but wanted to make sure. I will contact Tom. How do you tell an original from a reproduction. I read that Erfurt were marked but DWM weren't.