Help needed for an old musket

[anj4de]

Hello all

If this is not the right place please move the thread...!

I would need some help in getting a spare part for one of my original muskets. It's a US model 1816, made at Harpers Ferry in 1837. I was cleaning it yesterday and found out that one of the screws that hold the bridle is broken right were it goes into the lock plate. It's the upper bridle screw. Now I could of course replace it with a newly made modern one but since the musket is an original I wonder if someone knows where I might get an old, original screw from. 

thanks a lot
Uwe

[GrampaJack]

Here you go.  Best Regards, Jack

http://www.ssfirearms.com/

You might have to contact them if they don't show it on the site.  Nice folks, they will fix you up.

[anj4de]

Hello Jack

I will give S&S a ring this coming week...thanks for pointing me towards them. I have checked their web page and have seen that thex seem to be having almost everything you could think of around US military muskets...they even have a replacment feed hand for my 1855 model's Maynard primer.

thanks a lot
Uwe

[Artificer]

Have you checked the thread size on the screw?  The reason I ask is this was still before the Interchangeable Parts Manufacturing System came about at Harper’s Ferry (except for Hall Rifles) and there is a lot of variation in original threads of Model 1822 muskets. 

If you would like an original screw, I highly recommend this outfit as I have done business with them for 30 or more years and they have original screws.   It’s Lodgewood Mfg. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve done business with S & S for that long or longer as well, but they often don’t have as good of a selection of original parts as Lodgewood.  This is one part you really should call them about.

http://www.lodgewood.com/m1816-SpringfieldHarpers-Ferry_c_88.html

I have some original M1816/22 parts and screws, though I’m going to have to pull them out and check if I have a bridle screw and if it will match the thread on your screw.

Gus