One time wrote: ↑January 19th, 2023, 4:25 pm Good catch!
Yep same on all of mine.
Someone must surely know the ones we need
I ordered a bunch of 8-32 1/2 screws for the cyclotron. There are essentially only two types of screws on the pack in places that do have screws (which is fewer types than a real pack, I think). There's some debate over which screws are correct, whether they should be metric, but 8-32 1/2 apparently work.
The smaller screws on the Hasbro pack are in places where hex heads would go. The bigger screws are in places where philips heads would go and use a washer. I hear an accurate washer is very difficult to find because the screen used ones are a weird thickness but I honestly don't care. If somebody is inspecting the thickness of my washers, something has gone horribly wrong!
The small screws look to be replaceable with a 4-40 3/8 socket head screw. I mean, if you use philips, nobody is probably going to notice as long as you switch to black so they stand out less than Hasbro's but the hex screws are prop accurate.
You need around 11 of one type and 10 of the other. I forget which.
I had to order a hundred of each type from Amazon since no local hardware stores carry many black screws and some stuff won't arrive until Saturday.
My hope, after thinking about it, is that the same sized screws used elsewhere on the pack will work with a nut on the back. (And I don't care what the nut looks like!)
It makes sense, right? Hasbro changed the rest of the design to only use two styles of screw. So it would make sense if the philips-with-a-washer style work there too and Hasbro just ditched the non-functional one after deciding not to use black screws. Why spend $5000 on screws and washers and more on labor on a screw that doesn't do anything and looks wrong in silver, I guess? We're lucky they left us the hole!
I wonder if the motherboard screws are the same. Black would stand out less.