Small, stainless, wood screws

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! :-)

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

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.

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

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.

You could try:

or:

Kebrell Nuts and Bolts,

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.

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.

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.

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

SPAX A2 stainless

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

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.

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.

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

Spax:

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).

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

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?