[REQUEST] Help Finding Screws

Those are Security Torx screws and if they are truly stainless they won't rust. Do a search on Ebay for 1/4" stainless Security Torx screws. Else McMaster Carr.

@add - The style is a pan-head screw.
 
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And the question is whether actual security screws are even needed.

You can find stainless steel screws in a very wide variety at Lowes and Home Depot. You will almost certainly be able to find matching thread if you take an old rusted (which, as Diggs has already said, means they really weren't stainless) example to match to. If you don't absolutely need a Torx head you'll certainly find something.

McMaster Carr, of course, has everything (almost literally) anyone can think of when it comes to fasteners and hardware of myriad types.
 
I doubt those are real stainless steel. One the packaging doesn't say stainless steel, only stainless and there's plenty of room to add steel. Of course this is the Internet with all it's lousy pictures. But they are way to shiny looking to be stainless, probably some kind coating. Last, stainless steel is many time the price of regular steel, as in 5x or much more. If you search for stainless steel license plate screws they are several times more than the price you linked.
 
Markverhyden said:
stainless steel is many time the price of regular steel, as in 5x or much more
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About 20 years ago now, I built a 1,000 sq. ft. deck on the back of our house - that was when I still had time/energy/joints-that-worked. I used reclaimed cypress (logs recovered from the bottom of rivers used to transport trees on their way to the mill, dried & turned into lumber) and stainless steel square drive decking screws. I absolutely remember the sticker shock at their price. After some calculations, I bought a keg of them, and remember also being disappointed that they didn't actually come in a keg - ha. That would have been cool. As I look out my back window, the cypress has certainly seen better days, but those screws are still as shiny as the day they went in.


Markverhyden said:
If you search for stainless steel license plate screws they are several times more than the price you linked.
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There should be a law mandating the use of stainless license plate screws! There is nothing worse than seeing two rust streaks trailing down behind the license plate on a $30 or $40 thousand dollar car. Seriously, car makers - WTF. At least use plastic ones! That is the second thing I do when I get a car. The first one is removing the dealer's branding, don't get me started on that.
 
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