Brass rod size?
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Topic: Brass rod size?
Posted By: Bear43
Subject: Brass rod size?
Date Posted: August 13 2025 at 9:36am
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Does anyone know what the diameter of the threaded brass rod that was installed in the back end of the SMLE foreend is? I need to get some but have no idea on size and am having difficulty in finding that info
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Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: August 13 2025 at 10:10am
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I would be interested in this as well. Do you have a video showing how it is used? |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: August 13 2025 at 10:59am
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They are actually a "Brass Repair Wire", & truly as common as chicken's teeth! I've used threaded brass rod in 3/32" diameter. But its not "right", the original threads are a much coarser pitch & have coarser threads with a narrower size. Paddy, they are the little brass "dots with wings"" you see in various places on the stock, that's the end-on view of the reinforcing rod. They are screwed into pre-drilled holes then cut off & filed flush to reinforce weak spots in the stock design. If anyone has some I'd love to buy a couple of lengths from you too.   ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: August 13 2025 at 11:16am
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Thanks! |
Posted By: Bear43
Date Posted: August 13 2025 at 11:41am
| I saw Brownells had some 3/32" brass pins for stock repair and that brought up the question. I have a couple reproduction foreends and they don't come with the wire in them. They can do without it, but it would be nice to have the reinforcement there. |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: August 13 2025 at 11:43am
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They were available as "bundles" a while back, but I haven't seen them in a long time. Oh I remembered the diameter wrong 3/32" it was .  ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: Bear43
Date Posted: August 13 2025 at 12:17pm
Now if we can just get a time machine working and go back a ways with the current knowledge we have.... 
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Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: August 13 2025 at 5:54pm
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Oh I'd be buying a Webley–Fosbery Self-Cocking Automatic Revolver & a metric tonne of "Prideaux" speed-loaders & the cases.!   ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: August 13 2025 at 6:24pm
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im not even going to start the list - it would be way too long and most of you would also want them , i dont have any of that brass wire or id send it to you
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Posted By: Sapper740
Date Posted: August 14 2025 at 3:42am
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Has anyone ever tried #10 gauge brass wire which is readily available? #10 (2.588 mm) wire is slightly larger than 3/32" (2.381 mm) but it might work. https://www.amazon.com/BENECREAT-Gauge-Solid-Brass-Wire/dp/B0DG4QG8NB/ref=asc_df_B0DG4QG8NB?tag=bngsmtphsnus-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80264547285692&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=77706&hvtargid=pla-4583864013487259&th=1" rel="nofollow - https://www.amazon.com/BENECREAT-Gauge-Solid-Brass-Wire/dp/B0DG4QG8NB/ref=asc_df_B0DG4QG8NB?tag=bngsmtphsnus-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80264547285692&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=77706&hvtargid=pla-4583864013487259&th=1
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Posted By: Sapper740
Date Posted: August 14 2025 at 3:47am
Parker Hiscock magazines for me Shamu. |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: August 14 2025 at 5:23pm
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The wire woiuld be nice, but how are you going to thread it? It would work for purely cosmetic purposes though. ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |