On Sun, 06 Nov 2005 16:19:00 GMT, Don White wrote:

John H. wrote:
On Sun, 06 Nov 2005 00:52:16 GMT, Gene Kearns
wrote:


On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:33:27 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:

A proper Robertson has a tapered bit to fit the screw tightly.

Horse feathers.


AHHHHHHHHHHHGHHGHGHGHGHHHHHH...... (primal scream)....

OK, so I'm fixing the deck today and I got a box of these GD SS
screws. $14/lb..... and I must have stripped out the heads of 6-7
already....

POS..... gimme Torx or SOMETHING.....


Are you predrilling your holes? I never put a stainless (or any other) screw
into anything but soft pine without predrilling. Saves a lot of stripped screws
and aggravation.

Those green, big coarse threaded 'deck screws' don't usually need a
pilot hole drilled. (in spruce)

Well, he's stripping something. Not sure what it is. Pre-drilling has always
solved my screw stripping problems - in anything.
--
John H

"It's *not* a baby kicking, bride of mine, it's just a fetus!"

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