Need a few square head woodscrews

I'm in UK and looking for about 12 off No.6 or No.8 woodscrews 3/4 in or 1in long in a black finish to hold the hinges on an old looking piece of furniture. Can anyone suggest a supplier (or more suitable group in which to ask)?

TIA - Peter

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PGH13
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I got some at Lee Valley---www.leevalley.com--they're called pyramid head screws and Rockler carries them too. What I really wanted was black, square- head screws with no slot (which would make them bolts, I guess, but in small sizes)...I wasn't able to find them anywhere. All the escutcheons on my house's interior doors are attached with them, but the house was built in the 1920s.

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eag111

Someone specializing in house restoration would probably be best chance for more in the future. A lot of that kind of thing is salvaged and resold but it tends to be pricey. A few folks make reproductions as well. Being in the US I don't know where to point you in UK specifically.

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Duane Bozarth

Try

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're great people with fabulous products.

They might mail out such a small order.

Can't hurt to ask.

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Robatoy

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Stephen M

In article , snipped-for-privacy@aolnojunk.com wrote: What I really wanted was

Just an off-topic note, (and it would be easier to remember if it was the other way around) but a "bolt" threads into a "nut" and a "screw" threads into a hole (possibly prethreaded) in a part.

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Lawrence Wasserman

hey larry--you're right...but aren't lag screws sometimes called lag bolts, even though they don't thread into nuts?...by the way, you didn't grow up in Bethesda, did you--specifically Bannockburn?

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eag111

Thanks for the kind words, and indeed, we would ship them out - if we stocked them. Alas, we don't, and a quick check of our suppliers offers no help either.

Jim Ray, President McFeely's Square Drive Screws

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jimbo

Man, it's great to be told I'm right for a change! (lol) Well, sure they are sometimes, probably most of the time, called lag bolts, most call bolts that have a flat, phillips, or square drive "screws" and anything with a hex, socket, or square head a bolt, and it's kind of a pedantic distiction in my mind.

Didn't grow up in Bethesda BTW, though for a few years in the 70s I lived in Takoma Park and Beltsville. The rest of my residence in Maryland has been in Baltimore.

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Lawrence Wasserman

I think they would be correctly called coach screws, but these usually come with a hex head and start at arund 6mm, which is too big

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PGH13

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