Edit: B5 responded with “5-40 x 5/16 with no torque, just hand tighten”
my mistake was thinking the polymer trigger guard would install the same with the same hardware as an aluminum guard…but I need a set screw for the front and cant find the recommended size anywhere. Does anyone know off the top of their heads?
Maybe a good excuse to stop by the hardware store.
https://palmettostatearmory.com/b5-systems-composite-trigger-guard-mandrake.html
They come with the front screw usually installed so that it doesnt get lost. Is it threaded into the hole?
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nope, just an empty holes…
I can run the trigger guard into the hardware store and see if I can find something that works if no one knows. Or I suppose I can email the manufacturer…
I see “1/16” listed, a different forum mentioned a 5-40 x 5/16" set screw.
I’m reading I can drill it to fit lol…so much info. I thought this was gonna be easy lol.
this guy says the predrilled hole is not the same size as the most commonly provided set screws
he uses a 1/8 drill bit to make the hole bigger by hand
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saw some amazon knock offs but didn’t know if I could trust em.
if it were me id just go ahead and take it into an ace hardware and get the right set screw there… they have a great selection usually and you can usually find just about anything you need.
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Unfortunately due to the rise in crime reducing their business by 60% and their profits by probably all of it and then some ,the main Ace franchisee in my area folded a few years ago. I do have the big 3 real close, and there WAS a smaller ace up the highway a bit but I dunno if that one is even still open. Hardware stores are def on my agenda.
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yeah, im not sure if the big3 would have those in stock or not. i do know amazon offers a nice assortment of packs that have assorted sizes of thread and sizes of alan key to use with them. thats a bit more difficult than just finding one, and more expensive as well.
well there’s also Tractor Supply and Fleet Farms scattered about.
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i always forget about tractor supply… they may have it… i’ve never shopped / heard of Fleet though…
good thinking there however… best of luck!
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Fleet Farm is like if Walmart ,Menards, a cheap run down auto parts store, the hardware/fastener section at Ace and a farm had a baby…and it was big …that’s what Fleet Farm is. And they hire good looking rural woman instead of soccer moms.
i wish we had menards and fleedfarm here now.
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I miss my hometown ace store, half the store was ankle to ceiling bins of hardware.
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sounds like a good old school style store… i miss those.
You’d probably enjoy a visit to my favorite surplus stores
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They just opened up a Gigantic Menards in Joplin, MO. The Wife and I went to it a couple weeks ago - we spent over two hours (until they threw us out at closing time!), and I think we got through about a Third of the place…
Luckily, the three local Ace stores were bought up by a semi-local chain - T.H. Rogers. Not quite as much stuff, but I think it’s just that there’s really not as much available TO them to stock.