My last service was 50 yrs back (the first war we lost)
I still don't think much of a guy that brags he has found a source but won't share with people that have tried to help.
The new age, there are a lot of them.
Take Care1

Irv,

First of all...I started this thread by asking if anyone could recommend a machinist to "make" a part for me. Notice the subject title: "Duplicating small parts."

Second...the source I eventually found DID NOT come from anyone or anything on this forum, nor was it a machinist. I found a guy in the classifieds on the Krag Collectors Association web site who had the actual part I was looking to have made. I'm on the West coast and he is on the East coast and when I got his email last night it was too late to call him to actually place the order when I posted the thank you on here.

I have been searching high and low for this part for a very long time with absolutely no luck and I am not about to post the source on a world-wide web site so someone can buy the part out from under me before I actually order it from the guy.

Just for your info...the one guy that posted on here offering to try and make the part for me did so because I sent him a bolt for his rifle for FREE just because he needed it and I had a spare I wasn't using.

Another person who posts on here offered to post pictures for me of the part I needed ...because I had sent him some brand new parts (for FREE) that I had that he needed for his rifles.

I also just yesterday sent off about $200.00 worth of brand new parts (for FREE) to an active duty serviceman who posts on here because one of his soldiers needed them for his rifle.

I'm glad you noticed that I was a "Hell of a nice guy!"

Rick

Thanks...but I just bought some Krag parts from S&S and it's the "butterfly" that I am in need of.

The hinge "pin" itself is nothing more than a 5/32 " diameter 4" long piece of hardened drill rod.

The head piece (what some call the butterfly) functions as a lock of sorts to hold the pin in place. It is a separate part that is press fit to the muzzle end of the pin.

From what I have been told by several people they get broken all the time when guys try to drive the pin out without first rotating it up and out of the recess in the receiver. Maybe that's why there doesn't seem to be many of them around!

I can always thread the end of the pin and put a nut on if I have to but I'd rather get the right part if I can or at least have one made.

Thanks for the effort though!

Rick

I found the hinge pins!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Until I actually get them in my hands I ain't about to tell where I found them though.

I am now a happy man because I have all the necessary parts to finish up one 1898 US Krag in military trim and one as a sporter.

Thank you all for all the comments, suggestions and offers to help...I appreciate it very much.

Rick

Hell of a nice guy. Pick others brains but refuse to share
your own info.
Take Care!