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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!
 
Check Midway

I just ordered some screws from midway that I could not seem to find anywhere.
 
Thank you. I 'm so danged used to ordering from a webpage, that I hadn't even considered talking to a human being at either of those places.

I believe they're M3.5 X 0.6 X 10 mm filister head screws, nearly identical to grips screws commonly used on the CZ75, CZ82, et cetera. Beggars can't be choosers, I suppose, so I probably won't be able to match the head and shoulder of the screw exactly.

Thanks for the leads, gentlemen!
 
More and more US stores are stocking metric screws, but of course gunmakers tend to use odd sizes or unusual heads.

Jim
 
I see what you mean, Jim, this has been an education for me in metric screw sizes and availablity.

Tried Brownells and Midway, no luck. Both companies, however, were very accomodating and tried their best to help me---I was very impressed. Also, it was refreshing to have an intelligent and articulant human being answer the phone; no recordings, no menus, no music, and no pushing 1 to communicate in English. It was refreshing to say the least.

I called dozens of specialty gunsmiths to no avail. Though I haven't cut threads in many years, likely I'll wind up making the screw on a lathe.
 
maybe i can hook you up. i'm in the middle east now and there is a fairly large hardware store near me that has a lot of imperial and metric stuff. I'll go check on sunday and post again with results. I'm scheduled to go back state side on june 1.
 
No luck today. smallest in town was M4. Tomorrow i'm gonna put one of my local guys on it as a project and see if can come up with something this week.
I'll let you know.
 
I actually saw some M3.5s on Ebay, but they were ss phillips head. Close, but no cigar. I may end up swapping a few screws around the on the pistol and putting the "incorrect" screw in the least conspicuous place.

It won't be an 'historically accurate" piece anyway, as I had to use aftermarket grips and magazine. But it shoots remarkably well, and is a welcome diversion after shooting modern polymer pistols all afternoon.

Thanks for your help!
 
Lee,

Holy cow! I went to their website and they actually list the part! You can betcha I'll be calling them tomorrow first thing tomorrow morning to order it. My fingers are crossed that it will be in stock.

Thanks, buddy, I owe you big-time!
 
Popperts! I'd never heard of them, but they look solid. Thanks for the tip. I'm needing a screw for an Officer's Match that isn't in stock anywhere. Thanks!
 
Hope you have better luck than I did, Publius, because the two parts I needed for my pistol---a screw and a spring---were listed on their website but not in stock. I'd be curious to know how you made out.

I appreciate the lead, however, Lee.
 
Thanks, Lee, but I tried him previously. No dice. I'll probably shake the bushes for another week or so, then make one on the lathe---about 6 hours for a duffer like myself, with probably more time spent on slotting the head than cutting the thread, then eventually browning to match. I have to think of it as a labor of love. :banghead:
 
Well, no dice on my officer's match sideplate screw at Popperts, but it's going to go into my 'favorites' file anyway. They seem to have a good stock of unusual parts.
 
No luck over here. these can be had, just none available right now, usually a custom order for the slot, the phillips head are available though. Good luck with the lathe.
 
Don't Count Out Your Local Hardware Store

Don't know where you live Sleazy, but consider this: I bought a P-64 from some guy in Tennessee, and when I got it the grip escutcheon nut was missing. Called the guy, sorry, will look, sorry, can't find... I'm out of luck, so, off to the web, search, call, talk, post - nada. Finally, one day I was in our local Hardware Store on Steroids, Wally's, and out of curiosity ask the guy if he has a 6mm by whatever nut. Local guy says "Blued or stainless?" They had this nut I thought I would have to hire an agent in Warsaw to track down. Wasn't the original escutcheon nut, but I inletted it into the inside of the grip, epoxied it in and it looks perfect from the outside.

So, understood that yours is a specialty item, but don't completely rule out your local sources until you check. Might get a pleasant surprise... :eek:
 
It seems that "whole" metric sizes are easy---M3, M4, M5, etc.---but half sizes are scarce, which in my case, is M3.5.

I'm sure there's one out there ... somwhere!
 
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