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Post by cye on Aug 27, 2011 13:37:54 GMT -5
Well I had better make the first post ....to all those that have found it difficult to fix something to wood or to join wood with a wood screw, here's something that's really obvious to all the seasoned woodworkers out there (apologies).....
....drill a pilot hole just narrower than the shaft of the woodscrew you're using. It makes screwing in the screw a lot easier.
I was taught initially how to use a woodscrew but not to drill a pilot, and i would have liked to have known this earlier! No more wrecked hands and screw heads.
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Post by aerojon on Sept 22, 2011 6:53:53 GMT -5
Another point that'll be obvious to a lot of people but frequently gets missed...
If you're screwing two pieces of wood together, pre-drill the top piece (the one that the screw head will end up in) with a drill that's the same diameter as the *outside* of the screw threads. This way, the threads will slip through the top piece and draw the head towards the bottom piece, which is what you want.
I've taken apart a lot of joints like this which didn't work properly because the screw thread has bound to both parts and therefore can't pull them together. Tightening the screw just buries the head further in the top piece while maintaining the same separation of the two parts!
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Post by cye on Sept 22, 2011 14:39:04 GMT -5
Good one Jon. I've just built a neat staircase of ply all glued and screwed. The joints are all pre-drilled and screwed exactly as you have described.
now I may be deviating from woodscrew tips, but.......
that reminds me of the bad old days when i could saw a plank of wood which looked square on the 'big flat side', but ended up inadvertently 'wedged' on the cross section. the solution was to mark the cut with a set square on both the 'big flat' side facing me, and also the thinner side of the cut. Keeping an eye on the saw blade, ensuring it aligned to the pencil line in both planes particularly right at very start of the sawing, made a great improvement in the squareness of the saw cut.
i bet i have described that in a way that only I can understand. need a sketch!
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Post by cye on Sept 22, 2011 14:45:15 GMT -5
"experimental staircase", all glued and screwed as jon describes... Attachments:
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