Small, stainless, wood screws

[Chris Green]

Can anyone recommend and/or suggest where to buy small (as in 3mm or thereabouts) stainless steel wood screws?

Searching for them just throws up lots of hits for what are just ordinary self-tapping screws which are not ideal for wood.

I want some like the old Screwfix Turbo Ultra screws which were specifically for use in wood, had a sharp, self-drilling (type 17) tip and held well in wood having a deep thread.

I still have som 3 x 16 Turbo Ultra but they'll run out soon and I need other sizes - 3 x 10, 3 x 20, 3 x 30 or similar.

Even 3.5 diameter would be useful though I do still have a reasonable stock of Turbo Ultra 3.5mm ones.

[Theo]

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[Chris Green]

Thank you, I use CPC a lot anyway, and I had come across the Retinox screws. That's definitely a start in he righr direction! :-)

[Davey]

If you live anywhere near Bury St. Edmunds, you could try D. J. Evans. No guarantee, but they do lots of small unusual stuff.

[The Natural Philosopher]

They used to. not sure they still do.

There seem to be very good screws of the sort described on Amazon - e.g.

e.g.

[Theo]

I did have a brief look on Aliexpress which is sometimes a good place to get unavailable industrial parts, but here it suggested some 'yellow' and 'silver' screws which sound like kind of rusty cheese. I would probably pay similar attention to anything unbranded sourced from Amazon.

Theo

[The Natural Philosopher]

I've had pretty good experience with most 'chinesium' unbranded stuff on amazon The only products I will be very wary of from China are semiconductors. Blew a loudspeaker using 'rebranded' Sinclair style transistors that were not what they said on the tin.

[Davey]

You could try:

or:

Kebrell Nuts and Bolts,

2 St Helens Way, Thetford, IP24 1HG.

[Chris Green]

They're exctly what I meant by "just ordinary self-tapping screws" designed for metal but far from ideal in wood. They're not sharp and don't have deep enough thread to grip well.

[Chris Green]

OP here, yes I've found the boxes of stainless machine screws and self tappers from China via Amazon are ok. However I can't find any proper wood screws.

[Chris Green]

No stainless wood screws at all as far as I can see,

Next time I'm that way I might look in (I'm at the other end of Suffolk) Thought their web site has no wood screws at all.

[Malcolm Loades]

How about trying a marine chandlery? I googled a couple on line and they are certainly selling what are described as stainless steel wood screws.

Malcolm

[Andy Burns]

SPAX A2 stainless

Available as 16, 20, 25 and 30mm lengths in 3mm or 3.5mm thread

[Chris Green]

Yes! Thank you. I'd not found the Spax screws in such small sizes before. There's not many sellers seem to have them but I have found a few.

[Davey]

Oh well.

They helped me with some UNF bolts a few months ago. Even had them in stock.

Just a suggestion, it might help at some time in the future, even if not for now.

[RJH]

Screwfix - I used them during assembly of some camper fittings, excellent.

[RJH]

Spax:

[Chris Green]

They only have them down to 3.5mm diameter though don't they? I can't find any smaller. Plus two out of the three sizes they have are in small packs of 25 at silly prices, almost 30p per screw. The 200 pack is more sensible at about 9p per screw.

I am aiming to use them in France on my boat so it's almost certainly cheaper to buy them there via Amazon, or possibly Screwfix.fr, I'll take a look.

Screwfix.fr are *slghtly* cheaper for 3.5 x 30 but they also don't have any smaller (and only 3.5 x 30 in 3.5mm).

[RJH]

Ah yes, beg pardon, they only seem to go down to 3.5. Wickes have an own brand:

Might be worth a whirl.

[Andy Burns]

The spax website gives you the EAN/barcode part numbers

I found toolnation sell the 3mm, but only minimum units of 5x 200 boxes

- maybe if you phone them they'd let you buy 5 boxes of different length screws?