Thread: What is your favorite screw?

Originally Posted by Christopha

I use 5/16" roofin' screws .... don't use them poofy sucky sachy things......

Arh, so that means, you didn't vote..... 'cos ya couldn't.

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

"I do stuff to make timber betterer" so I had to ask.

:confused:

Strewth Cliff, when I first came on the forums I was considered by the local industry an "expert" .....a consultant even(thats what I get paid for anyway)
Now after conversing with you lot I believe I no longer in any honesty can state this . So I do things with wood to make it betterer and then facilitate others acquiring these skills.
Crikey now I've done confused myself :confused:

OK Bruce, stop consult'n & tell us....
"WHAT DO YOU DO WITH YA F'N SCREWS?"

I don't want a consultant's answer...
ya not being paid for it....
just give it to us straight....

Ya'ra a secret screw hoarder ain't ya?
You do all this waffle about wood all day long & at home you have a
secret stash of... METAL SCREWS

Okay Cliff ya got me...I use those screws to make the wood betterer, by joining different pieces together to make useful things out of it, thats betterer than a heap of sticks I'd reckon, sorta same as Mick does except I can't make a quid doing it :confused: So I make a quid or two confusing others professionally

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

"WHAT DO YOU DO WITH YA F'N SCREWS?"

just give it to us straight....

Ya'ra a secret screw hoarder ain't ya?
You do all this waffle about wood all day long & at home you have a
secret METAL SCREWS

Yep & lots of other metallic items as well like 8' coach screws & 10" bridge bolts...ah come here my high carbon galvanised lovelies :eek:

Well ya sure confused me professionally.....

Now.... back to the question.....
What do you do that would need a lazy 4 Kgs of 14g 75mm screws?

Not much actually as it turns out, just ask my wife.

Have been known to fix down battens, 35mm decking and Hwd 3x2's 40mm industrial floors etc with them in the past though.
These days I'm a follower of the darker side so I don't make stuff with wood anymore, I just play with my tools (and fixtures)and screw around in the shed.

OK, so they are ornamental now then?

Does that make them Art, Collectable or just lazy?

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

Does that make them Art, Collectable or just lazy?

All of the above + damn handy when things break, esp wooden fences, suspended decks, and the ocassional bridge

Originally Posted by Trav

what about those crap SS screws. I bought a bag of them to build a timber screen and half of them broke off in the timber before they were fully in. Bastards. Now I need to get them out... :mad:

I use whatever screws are most appropriate. Mostly phillips head woodscrews I guess. Sometimes zinc plated.

Trav

Could have been work hardened, best to get rolled thread SS screws,try a yacht chandler.

Cheers

I guess we are up to at least 31 people that have Bill Norquay's e-mail address

I just bought another $90 worth off him & when I read the newsletter,
I found about another $50 that I think I need....

I reckon my favorite screw is the one that holds the handle on the fry pan!!!

Originally Posted by echnidna

I reckon my favorite screw is the one that holds the handle on the fry pan!!!

Which end

My frypan is round so it don't have an end!!!