Colson Head Badge Screw Size??

[JimRoy]

Does anyone know what size screws go in a 1940 Colson head badge? Does anyone have two they will sell?Please PM me with responses. Thanks, JimRoy

 

[srfndoc]

Digging up an old thread... Looking for two brass head badge screws for a 36 Colson. Anyone know what size I'm looking for? Are they pointed (machine screw) or flat?

Thanks

 

[Archie Sturmer]

I once ordered a set of all three, 4-40, 3-48 and 2-56 in brass, slotted round head.
Don't remember where they all got to now.

So I just checked, a frame had broken off screws (ugh), so I drove them half-way out with a roofing nail, and then sacrificed a brass #3 screw to hammer them through. The #3 is about the right size, but the steel threads were more like coarse sheet-metal screws. So my brass 3-48 screws (with bronze washers) into painted holes might be faking it, and could fall out any day.

I have also been thinking about getting a set of extra-small screw taps, for such purposes.

 

[srfndoc]

I pulled one screw out of my 36 Colson Vogue and it looks more like a sheet metal screw with angled threads and is definitely original:

 

[srfndoc]

I ended up finding some decent ones on ebay, #2 x 1/4" brass round head slotted:



They are a bit too long so I just ground down a couple threads and they worked great.