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Small Brass Screws
« on: January 12, 2021, 12:58:25 PM »
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I am looking for a good online source for small brass screws that are about the same size as Atlas HO track nails.
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Re: Small Brass Screws
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2021, 01:20:39 PM »
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wood screws or machine screws or?  Smallest wood screws I've used are #2, although no idea how they compare to an HO track nail.  Machine screws go down to 0000 (in my limited experience)- much smaller than an MTL 00-90.

https://www.mcmaster.com/miniature-screws/

https://www.mcmaster.com/wood-screws/screw-size~no-2/
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Re: Small Brass Screws
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2021, 04:34:12 PM »
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Re: Small Brass Screws
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2021, 05:10:59 PM »
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Wood screws.
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Re: Small Brass Screws
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2021, 11:31:55 PM »
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Do you have a track nail that you could measure?  I have purchased self threading screws in 304SS as small as 1mm (.04") on Ebay.  Just looked and there are many suppliers.  At a glance there were 100pc lots for a couple of dollars.
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Re: Small Brass Screws
« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2021, 03:20:36 PM »
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Quote from: narrowminded on January 12, 2021, 11:31:55 PM
Do you have a track nail that you could measure?  I have purchased self threading screws in 304SS as small as 1mm (.04") on Ebay.  Just looked and there are many suppliers.  At a glance there were 100pc lots for a couple of dollars.

I second that...  You can find steel 1mm self tapping screws up to 5mm long on ebay.  I've used them to install N scale flextrack and turnouts on a small vacuformed plastic layout base (I rebuilt the track for someone) and they worked great.

The 1mm diameter is a little larger than the holes in N scale ties, but you can drill them out to clear the self tapping screws.  J.I. Morris used to manufacture 0.8mm self tapping screws, but they're super expensive (20 cents per screw or more).

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