Bucker bobbin mount screws?

[Possum]

I'm about to run out of the Microfastener bucker mounting screws and frankly they are pretty bad. The slots strip out real easy and I throw probably a third of them away when if the driver slips and rips the head up. A few heads have actually broken off too. Are their current ones any better or does anyone have a better source? A true round head with deep phillips slot? Thanks....

[clown_luthier]

i got a box with few thousands of their screws today, but it is still on post office, i must go there to pick it up tomorrow.
in box i got a samples of their current brass screw for mounting bobbins on baseplate, i can check and get back to you if you want

[Possum]

Yeah let me know. I found another small batch to tide me over but am really sick of these cheap screws, the head have cracks in them too....

[clown_luthier]

i was buying baseplates from montreux until now and i always got this screws with them, and i never broke one single screw.
maybe you can buy from him this screws but for little more money than from microfasteners

[Possum]

Thanks I'll ask him about them...

[Possum]

Not having any luck at all. Maybe I'll switch to steel....

[SonnyW]

I bought a couple hundred of the Microfastener ones about a month ago. They haven't been all that bad, So far only one has stripped out and I haven't seen any cracked heads and stuff. But I have only made maybe 6 or 7 humbuckers with them so far. IMO the Guitar Jones ones are a lot better and about the same price if you want to take a chance on that. I still have some of them and I compared them to the Microfastener ones. The finish and heads are better and the striaght part is shorter on the GJ ones which ought to make for less torque needed to tighten.

[Possum]

Anyone try StewMac's? They don't show the heads on them in the photos just the threads....

[Possum]

Oh darn, StewMac's are the wrong length....

[Ward]

I got a small bag from GJ a while ago but they are steel but in saying that, they are Philips head and I've used them for more sturdy jobs and they are good quality, no breaking and the head didn't strip out, what a surprise, that's usually the first sign off shit quality. It's still steel though. I find the Stew Mac ones strip real easy in the bobbin but at least they are Philips head, I think all slotted screws should be tossed out, how many time must I stab myself. Are you still boycotting GJ

[copperheadroads]

mojo has some
Mojotone Brass Humbucker Frame Mounting Screws / Dz
which looks like the microfasteners

[clown_luthier]

neither real screws and microF screws don't look like this

[SonnyW]

By golly, Ward you are right, the GJ ones are steel. Never noticed it before and didn't think to test it. I guess at my beginning level I guess steel didn't hurt anything. I am still mostly experimenting with my humbuckers trying to get some designs nailed down, not selling any but it is good to know, and I should have noticed.

[Possum]

I found a website that sells them, so we'll see if they are the same Chinese crap, probably are.

[Dave Kerr]

I've bought oddball sized brass screws from greenboatstuff.com before, they were very high quality.
It doesn't look like they stock what you're looking for, but it couldn't hurt to ask if they can source them for you.