Missing spring-loaded posts, anyone know where I can get some new ones?

About half a year before intel and macs combined my previous mac mini crashed in which after having already an apple care service check up was designated a "User-caused damage" to the mother board. An bug from who knows where some how got into the computer itself probably since the slots on the bottom of it lead directly to the mother board but either way they plain out told me that the Mac was going to cost me 800 dollars to fix. The computer itself costed only 600 dollars back then so we said to them screw it. I was pretty ****** off and I'm pretty sure anyone else would be considering only the motherboard was screwed up and not the hard-drive, memory, or processor which all together would cost the same for a replacement mother board.
Much later bought a mac mini intel and decided since the mac mini I had was broken that I'd work on it to see if I could ever get it working myself. I bought from Mac-pro.com an mother board from their exclusive stock of mac mini parts and found them to have taken off the heat sink. Searching through the older mac mini the apple care service team had removed the spring-loaded posts from the computer and I'm guessing was examining the processor to see if it over-heated or cracked I'm guessing. Well the older mac mini the one I'm trying to fix with the missing spring-loaded post still had the hard-drive attacked on by the silver heatsink gel but ultimately I need to remove the heatsink and transplant it to the newer motherboard and processor of course with the silver gel but I need the spring-loaded posts to keep the heat sink down.
Is there anyone out there that knows of anyplace at all that has the spring-loaded posts needed to keep the mac mini's heat sink down onto the processor?
I looked all over the internet, searched through ebay and stores, and couldn't find it anywhere.
short description of it is more like a spear type screw that once in locks itself down to the mother board with a flat head and a spring around the shaft. The spring presses against the heat sink and pulls up the mother board to keep the heatsink tightly in place.
Let it be known that this is a restoration project to bring back an old mac mini into working conditions.

Try: http://www.mac-pro.com/Mac-Pro-Online-Store/Mac-Mini-Intel-Replacement-Parts

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