Jaeger sliding patch pox cast brass nose piece

[holzwurm]

I managed to get into Ron Scott's Jaeger class in Kentucky this June. A while back he sent me a handful of cast parts I'm devoting quite a bit of clean up - there were some pretty ugly flash around a couple of parts. Today I finished the interior of the parts and the trigger guard cleaned up really well. The dilemma I'm having is to silver solder or not to silver solder some little button nuts I made to hold the sliding patch box in place with a screw fromthe bottom. I've made several of these these buttons to take an 8-32 screw from inside the lid. My delemma is should I solder them in place now or should I wait till I have the cast brass pieces inlet, then solder them in place and drill for the screw.

[Acer Saccharum]

I'd solder them on first. I can NEVER get things to solder where I want them, exactly, so I think you'd be painting yourself into a corner if you waited.

If anything should happen to the brass while soldering, your inlet would be for naught.

That's my opinion. I'm stickin to it. For now. 

Good luck.

Tom

[Mike Brooks]

I'd forget about the lug and just tap through the inlay. That's the way I've seen it done on most originals.

[Dave B]

I too would solder them on first. I have some mounts that have the lugs original to the casting for the screw exactly like you are talking about. But just like Mike said allot of them are just tapped right into the plate with no boss. I like the blind hole Idea my self when doing Germanic work. It just looks cleaner.

[Ron Scott]

Hi Jerry,

The button you made looks nearly identical to the one I just soldered onto one of the thumb plates from the same parts set.  I too would suggest soldering it on before intletting.

[holzwurm]

Thanks everyone. I made these as small as I can - I figured that if I could get three turns of the screw that's mechanically satisfactory. they are 3/16 high. Since I'm making all the screws (except wood screws) I decided to use 8-32 tap - mostly because I had a handfull of lock screws already made from an earlier project.

 drilling through the casting would work too but the casting is heavily decorated with carving that I probably never could replicate if I cut it away.

Back to work -