Source for screws?

Olle · 05-18-2010, 04:31 PM

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.

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05-18-2010, 04:31 PM	#1
Olle User Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Tennessee Posts: 1,149 Thanks: 159 Thanked 664 Times in 318 Posts	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.