Originally Posted by
juvela
By vertical bolt do you mean that your brake is mounted with assembly 478E shown in this diagram?
Thread for this bolt is likely metric 6mm X 1.0 and widely available.
Yes, that little nut/bolt 478 is missing from my bike, and actually the whole brake (Mafac racer). It is metric. The only ones I have seen here recently, were on sale on a Peugeot and similar Le Jeune. Should have bought the whole bike for getting that little piece (bikes were on sale for 475€ and 500€, so they were not for me).
I live in Finland, and the vertical bolt bikes are quite rare.