lol. wut.   dude.. the screw goes thru a sheetmetal clip. it  doesn't have
to be anything specific!!  just the length is important..  that's it!!

and i thought *i*  was anal retentive.. LOL.

In a message dated 6/26/2010 2:01:10 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM writes:

I'm  missing one of the tail light assembly mounting screws so I paid a
visit to  my friendly ACE Hardware to see if I could find one. I was
poking through  the fasteners section when a red-vested sales associate
approached and  asked if he could help me find something.

I handed him the  screw.

"That's just a sheet metal screw," he said.

I told him I  had reason to believe it's metric.

He snorted and picked up a #12 SMS  and tried to match the threads. They
were too coarse. He looked at the  screw.

"You're not going to find a metric sheet metal  screw."

"Someone did -- you're holding it," I pointed out,  helpfully.

He handed it back. I've come home empty-handed.

So --  I need one. Or eight in stainless. Any ideas?