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Finally getting to reassembly my VF-90, what a process!  Just got done with mocking everything up and cataloging all of the bolts, nuts, screws, washers, and whatever else I can think of... :darn:  Glad I took two weeks off for Christmas!

I don't think there's a screw kit for this machine, so where are you guys going to get all of the hardware?  I'm going to try the big box stores first, then maybe try some of the specialty stores after that.  I'll get some photos when I get a chance, this was my first machine, had it for close to 6 years now, so putting everything back is quite an adventure...good thing I took a ton of photos!

I've had more luck finding odd size screws at the smaller Hardware Hank or Ace Hardward type of stores... Menards and Home Depot only sell the large bubble pack of standard sizes around me...

Photos are a necessary lifesaver!! Trying to catalog all the screws on my Westy WB-60 was a nightmare. Westinghouse manuals never ID'd their fasterers in thread/size terms (i.e. 6-32x3/8"), but simply labeled it (i.e. Part # Y-1234 - Breaker Strip Screw - 18 qty.) I had all the original screws zinc plated. A lot of the screws types were just not available anymore like some of the various SEMS screws.
I'm like John, I have an Ace Hardware that I usually go to for smaller quantities etc. - they just have it set up better IMO.
McMaster-Carr for larger quantities....

      You can start off with a box of 100  # 8X1/2" pan head screws.
                                                   10 #10X1/2" panhead screws

                                      Probably 20 #8-32 panhead machine screws
                                            and 10 #10-32 panhead machine screws
                                              plus a few nuts for each of these.
     
      This should give you 90% of what you will need, keep a list and get all the rest later.

I have to agree with going to Ace Hardware.  They have a much larger selection of specialty hardware items. 

I keep everything I take off anything. All our measurements are now Metric.
All the machines I work on have imperial fittings. Not an Ace store for about 5,000 miles..

I hit my True Value Hardware up  and I buy by the box  it alot easier and the True Valve will order the odd stuff for me also. For the Chrome Screws , Nuts & Washers I like the Ace they have a better selection.  I will only us the big box stores if I have to .