I'm willing to bet that the OP would be smart enough to take a sample with her and they will match it...if she needs Turbo Screws and is aware that a Turbo needs screws I'm pretty sre that she has a set or can find a set from a frend
I am not concerned about Pixel's ability to know how to buy the screws at a hardware store, and neither is she I believe. If Graco is no longer sending replacement screws (especially free), this makes a huge difference in our ability to direct people to easily (and cheaply) GET the screws they didn't even know they needed.
By "people", I don't mean "CPS Techs on car-seat.org"... I mean everyone else: the family at preschool whose seat you see sitting in the entry waiting for pickup; the friends who come over to visit; the people who post on car-seat.org and mention that they have a Turbobooster for their older child when they're asking about a new seat for their 14 month old; etc.; etc.
Plenty of children have been protected by Turboboosters in horrible accidents with no screws at all
I have no proof of this at all- do you? I'd like to hope it's true, and it feels like it must be, given that upwards of 80% of the TBs I see in parking lots (which are well over 50% of the booster seats I see in parking lots) do not have screws in the arms, but I
really don't know. Graco has made it clear that the screws are required- I've ordered a few sets of free screws from Graco (three sets, 15 screws total, I think) and handed them out to friends (or put them in myself). I've bought a couple of screws from the hardware store, too, but pan-head (which is not as nicely low-profile as the truss head), and expensive ($0.25/screw- cheap for one-offs, but I can't supply them to people for free that way). I've directed many more people to use Graco's replacement parts system to get screws, and I know that several have done so- I can guarantee that NONE of those people would have gone to a hardware store and tried to find "#10 machine screws, 3/4" long".
I hope that the lack of screws on the replacement parts ordering forms on Graco's site is temporary.