Filling a screw hole

[rednekked]

Marlin Lever Action rifle, it has a tang sight added that I now want to remove. I need to find a way to fill the extra hole in the tang. Seems like a simple job, but I don't know where to find a screw-hole filler. Can anyone help?

 

[vmax]

JB Weld?
Solder?

 

[Dawico]

Buy a tiny allen head screw and put it in there. That way you can always take it back out later if you so desire.

Go to the hardware store and bring the removed screw with to find a match.

 

[Younggun]

Ace usually has a good assortment of such screws.

 

[TxStetson]

Buy a tiny allen head screw and put it in there. That way you can always take it back out later if you so desire.

Go to the hardware store and bring the removed screw with to find a match.

Ace Hardware usually has a whole section of little bitty screws that work well.

 

[Younggun]

Heh

 

[Texan-in-Training]

I used some black crayon melted into a couple of holes on my 82G Kimber.

 

[rednekked]

I don't want to weld it up, or JB Weld it - I'll take the old screw to Ace and see if they have an allen head screw that will work. That and some red lock-tight should make the fix for me.

Thanks for the answers.

 

[benenglish]

Uh..."filler screws" are a thing. Brownells has 'em.

 

[grasshopperglock]

Red loctite is some serious stuff. The blue will work for what you need.

 

[benenglish]

Red loctite is some serious stuff. The blue will work for what you need.

^^^^^This!

 

[BRD@66]

Red loctite is some serious stuff. The blue will work for what you need.

^yes!
ninja'd

 

[Brains]

I'd thread in a socket head cap screw were it mine.

 

[orbitup]

Go to the hardware store and bring the removed screw with to find a match.

Just take the gun, I'm sure they won't mind.

 

[benenglish]

Just take the gun, I'm sure they won't mind.

I've done that and they didn't mind. It helps that I was out in the country at the time.

 

[oldag]

For that small of a screw, I would go with purple loctite rather than even blue. Definitely not red, you will never get it out.

 

[TxStetson]

Marlin Lever Action rifle, it has a tang sight added that I now want to remove. I need to find a way to fill the extra hole in the tang. Seems like a simple job, but I don't know where to find a screw-hole filler. Can anyone help?

If you’re going to the reunion, I’ll give you the 4 little factory Marlin screws I just took out of mine this morning.

 

[satx78247]

Marlin Lever Action rifle, it has a tang sight added that I now want to remove. I need to find a way to fill the extra hole in the tang. Seems like a simple job, but I don't know where to find a screw-hole filler. Can anyone help?

rednekked,

IF you were closer to The Alamo City, I would give you one. = I bought 25 of them in various sizes for 15 cents each at a recent gun-show, in case that I needed 2 or 3. - "Filler screws" are not hard to find & YEP the small screws from a hardware store will likely fill your hole(s) quite well, too.

yours, satx

 

[Dawico]

I don't want to weld it up, or JB Weld it - I'll take the old screw to Ace and see if they have an allen head screw that will work. That and some red lock-tight should make the fix for me.

Thanks for the answers.

I agree with the others. Red is permanent on tiny screws. Blue may even be pushing it.

 

[jkingrph]

+1 on Brownells and possibly Midway. I have numerous guns that have pre drilled and tap scope mount holes with filler screws, no locktite and they stay in place. I also have a Marlin like you where I removed a tang sight and put in a filler screw. Aligned the screw with the length of the gun and put a dab of clear finger nail polish on the threads. It has stayed put for years.