Different wood types

[Peter Laidler]

I often wondered about the prolific use of those threaded brass wire things. Can I assume that they were threaded into drilled slightly undersize holes? The question is just HOW did they thread them in withoiut the buggers shearing off.......... because by definition, it must have been hard brass

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[enbloc8]

I often wondered about the prolific use of those threaded brass wire things. Can I assume that they were threaded into drilled slightly undersize holes? The question is just HOW did they thread them in withoiut the buggers shearing off.......... because by definition, it must have been hard brass

The US used those same brass "stock binders" well into the M1 Garand era. Somewhere around here I have a 1950s or 60s depot maintenance manual that details their use. As I recall they were supplied pre-slotted on one end like a headless screw, threaded into a specific size drilled hole (just like any other wood screw), cut off as close to the surface as possible and filed flush. A major help with any wood screw is to "lube" the threads (simply dragging the threads across a bar of soap works wonders), but the biggest thing in my experience is using the correct size drill so the hole isn't undersize.

Speaking of coachwood...was coachwood used in Lee-Enfield production creosoted, as with L1A1s?