Drive screws for SATA in G5

This is silly I know. But where on earth does one buy replacement hard drive screws for a powermac G5? I've not been able to find any vendors.

Hi, and a Warm Welcome to the Power Mac G5 Forum!
There are spare hard drive screws, if you haven't used them, in the G5 just to the left of the drive bays as shown in Fig 8 here
http://www.info.apple.com/usen/cip/pdf/g5/073-0851.pdf
If you need more, they are available here
http://www.welovemacs.com/9226253.html
May be cheaper elsewhere, or from your local AppleStore, etc. if you quote the part number.

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