Trim screws

[Begle1]

Anybody know where I can get a box of the Phillips oval-headed, 5/8" long, #10 or 12 self-tapping screws that hold most of the interior and exterior trim on? My truck is missing half of those screws. I'd really like stainless ones since I'm trying to replace all the hardware on my truck with stainless, but since my carefully-researched box of 100 McMaster-Carr screws wasn't right I'd even be willing to buy some stock ones.

[ccab85]

http://www.auveco.com or http://www.henrysautomotivewarehouse.com

[PToombs]

Every time I go to the junk yard I go home with a few in my pocket. Darn truck must eat them, they disappear faster than I can put them in!

[Begle1]

Luckily for me I was able to use my box of #10, 5/8" long, oval-headed stainless sheet-metal screws for a lot of my trim. I now realize that when you're threading screws into sheet metal, the threads per inch of the screws isn't that important; even though the pointy-tip screws I bought have half as many threads as the stock self-tappers, they still thread into the holes and grip well.


I was able to attach all my front fascia, thresholds and dome light with these guys from McMaster-Carr. The heads are just a bit bigger than the stock ones, so they do stick above the thresholds a bit more than stock, but they look alright. I'm planning on using them for my interior trim as well, and I think that'd be about all of the oval-headed screws on the truck.