I am missing a bolt for an old English gun. It had been badly buggered. But I have to plead stupidity because I put my damaged bolt in a safe place so I could recover it. Now I can't find it. I hate when that happens but I was knocked pretty dippy by the accident and the bolt probably needed to be replaced anyway as tig welding a new head and reshaping the bolt is an iffy enterprise. I'm going to try a machine threaded bolt, but I presume the thread is a British Standard Whitworth. All I know about Whitworth came while I was restoring a MGTD using Whitworth tools.I know nothing of the treads. 1)Will a modern machine thread bolt work in a Whitworth threaded hole? 2)Does any one know of a dealer who sells Whithworth screws or bolts?
The area the bolt screws into is on the tang and there is not much metal there to oversize drill and cut new machine threads. I am to not too crazy about drilling and re threading anyway as the fit is critical and if I don't line things up just right I'm going to have a problem with the gun.
