Looking for screws

[tex702]

Okay guys, we have all heard it before.  I am looking for screws to screw down gargrave track to a wooden stickbuilt trestle.  I have been told to use #2 or #3 flathead wood screws 3/4" long.  Well thats a little to long for my needs I need them 1/2" long.  I have been told to contact O Atlas and they would have what I needed.  No such luck.  They want to sell me some screws and they dont even know what size they are.  The part number they gave me was 6094.  O Atlas says they are track screws.  I have worked a very long time on this trestle and I will be darned if I will let some unknown person sell me track screws that seem to be three inches long and round heads.  Does anyone know where I might get this size screw?  I have tried Ace Hardward, Home Depot, Fastenal even Dills Industrial Supply.  They all act like these are going to be very hard to get.  There has got to be a place somewhere where these screws can be bought?  Any suggestions?.  Thanks

[pbjwilson]

You can get them from Micromark. They have all kinds of small screws. Look under hardware, then wood screws. Good-luck.

www.micromark.com

[csxt30]

Paul is probably right, I forgot about Micro-Mark !! Here are the ones I use on Gargraves track. I got them at a small hardware store a couple years ago. Busy Beaver, I think  I use a the orange tool, countersink, to get them down even with the tie, then paint the screw black. I show 2 sizes here, 1/2 & 5/8. I also have some 3/8, no good !

  

 

 

Hope this helps !

John

[jefelectric]

The Atlas track screws are 3/4" long and somewhere between #2 & #3 to my eye.

Another source of screws of any size you can imagine is McMaster-Carr.  They are an industrial supply house but as near as I can tell, anyone with a credit card can buy from them.  http://www.mcmaster.com/  It might take a while to wade through their on line catalog.

[southernrr]

I have used Home Depot with great success for the correct track screw with one humorous side note.  My order was delayed due to a security check to see why I was ordering a couple hundred of these small sheet metal screws.  Seems I became a national security risk in the minds of Homeland Security.  Had to end up signing an affadavit of my intent.

Go figure, huh????

[thankey]

Try boltdepot.com. http://www.boltdepot.com/product.aspx?cc=11&cs=45&cm=7&cd=586