Bolts And Such

[Tim Crosby]

 Eric Kettenburg posted this in the "Classifieds" but more people will see it here. They have some hard to find hardware.

  Tim C.

    https://www.blacksmithbolt.com/

[tomjanemc]

Have any of you prolific rifle builders, create a list of the most common size & length of slotted oval head or flat head screws used for your rifle builds?
 It would be very helpful to everyone.
I’ve purchased some screws from https://www.blacksmithbolt.com/ and they are a great resource.

[Not English]

Tim, great idea. I always purchased mine from the hardware store or scrounged around for what I needed in the shops at the UW (Wi.). The hardware store is increasingly getting to  be a lost cause.

[rsells]

Tim,
Thank you very much for this source.  I spend way too much time trying to find the correct screws I want for my builds.  It is impossible to find anything locally, and nearly as bad getting the lengths I am looking for from my normal supply guys I have been using for years.  I have just about decided that I have lost my way or just getting too picky about what is available!
                                                                                                  Roger Sells

[duca]

Awesome Tim thanks for the info

Anthony

[Tim Crosby]

  The "Thanks" go to Eric K. the link was from his post in the "Classifieds" .

    Tim

[Bob Roller]

I have made all kinds of "bolts" for both muzzle loaders and cars.When I was making
locks I sometimes got requests for cross screws to hold the lock on the gun and they
were usually 8x32 sharp corner fillister heads with "V"slots.I made them from 12L14
and some were 6x32 for ramrod clearences and locks with a very small area in front
of the mainspring.Anyone with a small lathe can make these and 12L14 IS the ideal material
and MCMaster Carr sells it in small quantites any any size needed.
Bob Roller

[David Rase]

Blacksmith bolt has been my "go to" place for wood screws for years.  Great stuff.  Just remember to order plenty of extras as sometimes the slots can be cut quite off center.  The slots are wide so I also swage the slot together, recut a thinner more historically correct slot and refile the head and sharp edge.
David

[Mike Brooks]

Blacksmith bolt has been my "go to" place for wood screws for years.  Great stuff.  Just remember to order plenty of extras as sometimes the slots can be cut quite off center.  The slots are wide so I also swage the slot together, recut a thinner more historically correct slot and refile the head and sharp edge.
David

I remove old wood screws from my friend's door hinges and their antique chairs.

[Jim Kibler]

We buy all of our wood screws from Blacksmith Bolt.  These aren't perfect, but the best quality we've found.  Interestingly these are primarily NOS from the 60's or 70's.  They are FAR superior than most current screws manufactured.  I foresee a time when we'll have to have these produced on screw machines.  The quality will be excellent, but the cost will be pretty high.

Jim

[Bob Roller]

MOST of the family owned hardware stores like we had here in Huntington are long closed
and the inventory scattered.Cavendish-Cyrus here still had shotgun shells in wooden crates
with dovetailed corners when Sally Cyrus closed it in 1995.WalMart and flea markets were
a big enemy for her store.One time,the day after a break in I found saw blades from her store
at a nearby flea market and told the vendor "I will take them all"he then said "That will be"
and I told him I was TAKING them back to the rightful owner and then served notice  on the
flea market owner that I was going to have the state tax commissioner and the IRS dump a full
ration of the finest problems they could think of on that den of thieves.He nearly lost bladder
control over that and I did notice a lot fewer vendors afterward.
Those long gone stores were a real source of NOS inventory of screws,bolts and anything else.
I kept the Cavendish-Cyrus in the pipe threading business by maintaining their threading machine
working and not charging for the time.Memories of people long gone and another America.
Bob Roller
PS
Turley's hardware store in the East End of the city still had muleshoes in a wooden keg when
Carolina Lumber bought them out.

[Richard Snyder]

Mike's suggestion works really well, but I can't figure out what happens to my friends.

[Shopdog]

Blacksmith bolt has been my "go to" place for wood screws for years.  Great stuff.  Just remember to order plenty of extras as sometimes the slots can be cut quite off center.  The slots are wide so I also swage the slot together, recut a thinner more historically correct slot and refile the head and sharp edge.
David

I remove old wood screws from my friend's door hinges and their antique chairs.

Do you at least wait for yur friends to get up from their chair before you relieve them of their screws? 😝

[David R. Pennington]

I have bought some fasteners from blacksmith bolt. Mostly for blacksmith projects I’ve done. Nothing, to my mind, distracts more from a traditional project than hardware store Phillips’s screws.
 Rivets, square head bolts and lags, and slotted screws are mostly what I’ve bought from them.
I make most of my own side nails and lock screws.