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If you find commercially available screwdrivers to fit ANY of the screws, other than the buttplate and stock screws, please be a kind soul and post the info here. Fortunately I have a good source of large broken old hacksaw blades and a grinder. When I ground screwdrivers they always got too soft, and I had no luck re-tempering. With the saw blades, just dip them in oil when hot and go.
When it comes to these screws on S x S guns, I would gladly forego the aesthetics for a good allen head or torx socket.

Had a BSS in the safe for years. The lube congealed so badly it was hard to do anything with the gun. Something like that may have happened to this one, not as badly as mine. Cleaning inside and getting rid of any old lube might get it working.

Virginian,
I hope some of the modern guns go the route of allen type heads. I think they could be incorporated well with actually less conspicuous looks than a outdated design like the slot.

Chuck, let me add my voice in chorus to that!! I can't imagine building a new gun and not using up to date fasteners. Tradition be damned!

I expect I will find some congealed or solidified grease. The gun has been pretty stiff when I break it too. Dan

Dan,
Also, check to see that the big weight is spring loaded to the forward position and moves freely backward. Then check the transfer bar (the part that is hooked to the weight and lays along the bottom and slides between the trigger and sears) for being spring loaded downward and moving freely upward. That's about all I can think of off hand.

I bought a set of screw drivers at Cabela's last year. I will let you know how they fit when I find them. I think I put them in a special place so the other people in my family, who just happen to be women, don't use them for things like paint cans or getting mud off their sneakers. Dan

I use a 28 hull over my screwdriver. I would be very careful with spray cleaner. It will DRY out everything. Make sure you reoil every where it touches. I have worked hours trying to get a 101 and a Kolor to work after they had been cleaned with spray cleaner.
bill

Well, the stock was easy to remove; thanks all for the help avoiding the pitfalls. I did not find the screw driver set I hid, so I ground down a regular one for the triggerguard screws. Those slots on the triggerguard screws are really narrow! I never heard anyone comment, "boy those screws sure look nice with the slim slots." I wonder why they do that.
Although there did not appear to be any gunk, I cleaned things out with brake cleaner. I was not, however, able to fix the problem. The big weight is spring loaded to the forward position, but the transfer bar does not seem to be spring loaded downward. Maybe that is a problem, but what I noticed mostly is that when the left hammer is selected, the big weight gets hung up slightly and does not swing forward freely after the trigger releases the left hammer. The weight does not hang up when the right right hammer is selected. I guess that the parts are binding and need to be taken apart and smoothed up. I am not sure I am up for that, but it seems like a simple job for a smith. If the spring was stonger, that might make it work correctly also. Dan

Dan,
I'm just going by memory on the the transfer bar being spring loaded downward. But I'm fairly certain that is the case. Check to make sure the transfer bar is not hanging up on the trigger or sears. I'll check my guns for the spring loading of the transfer bar. It could be a case of the spring having slipped off the transfer bar or a broken spring.