I need to buy some spare screws for a bed I have put together. They are the usual type thats fitted to Ikea or Argos furniture, large flat head, yellow finish, 4mm hex head. The ones I need have a very coarse wood thread on them, not the ones that go through a threaded block

But I can't find spares anywhere. Anyone suggestions of places to try?

As they are made from that wonder material called 'chinese crap metal' as soon as you open your tool box to get out the allen key the head has already deformed so you can't turn them.

So I have about 6 or so I need to replace. And as they are so soft I am sure thousands of other people have had to replace them too.

Any suggestions? (apart from buying better, more expensive furniture?)

use the phone that plugs stright into the ikea building. it appears one exisits, if the instructions are to be beleived

Do you live far from the Ikea where you bought them? If you go to customer services they usually have boxes of the spare parts where you can just go and grab handfulls - probably cos they are already aware they're tosh!

Hi all

Enough of all that i work for them,

Ill see what i can do u2u your details to me, and can you remember the name of the bed that would help ,or check out the catalogue to see if its in there?,

Cheers