Date:         Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:12:49 -0800
Reply-To:     Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: needed: source for *tiny* screws
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If one needs a large enough quantity of hardware items, one can have them
made (I've done it, for example pan phil bolts with pointy raised dots
under the head to cut through paint to assure electrical continuity
between two pieces of metal). In quantity, they're plenty cheap. But if I
needed to buy a few of those bolts today I'd be out of luck. VW and
Westfalia could certainly source types of hardware we'd never be able to
buy unless we found a vendor who'd stumbled across a box of them in
surplus auction or something.
--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR



On 2/23/2008 8:32 AM Mike S wrote:

> At 10:16 AM 2/23/2008, John Runberg wrote...
>> I'm missing most of the tiny screws that hold the aluminum curtain
>> track in place on my westy. These look to be #2 wood screws, however
>> the head is REALLY small (like 3mm max).
>
> 3mm is .118", a #0 screw (machine or wood) can have a head .119" in
> diameter, so that seems a close fit. But, the shank diameter is .040",
> significantly smaller than a #2, which is .054".
>
> This site has down to #0: http://www.rtlfasteners.com/RC/l.html