Correct way to drive a screw. Can't stop laughing. Not sure why.
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Correct way to drive a screw. Can't stop laughing. Not sure why.
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One of Home Depot's training videos for millennials perhaps?
http://www.homemadetools.net/forum/h...re-video-64065
HA HA!! Reminds me, an employee of our family timber yard in Calif in the 60's, did building work as a sideline. He reckoned that the best way to drive a screw (typically a 1" X #8/10 door hinge screw) was to drive a pilot hole with a 16d nail, then drive the screw with a hammer leaving a couple of threads out and screw the last couple of turns! RIP Bobby Gene McDaniel....
Jim in Sunny South Coast NSW Australia
30 year expat from Beserkley/Orinda, Calif....
Perhaps we are missing something. Maybe the drill is turning but as it is a time lapse type film the drill actually looks like it is stationary, or maybe he is really reaming a hole in a very soft piece of pine and did not show the screw being pulled out again, or maybe this is a man with twelve trades and thirteen mistakes. (An Afrikaans saying meaning a jack of all trades....) I would like to see this done in a really hard piece of wood.
Agreed, no way to tell. See Poe's Law. At first I thought it was just cut from a terrible DIY video, but the final scene was just too perfect, so I'm leaning parody.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hans Pearson
Reminds me of something I was told many years ago. "Hammer them in, the slots are for taking them out."
Reminds me of a story from my youth. I was building some wood boxes and was screwing them together. Since I had to drive them by hand, I was starting them by tapping them in about a half inch with a hammer, then driving them in. My dad walks over and watches as I start a screw and says "you know, they go in easier with a screwdriver".
This applied topically in 2017. As of 2020, became reality. . .Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon
A slower version of what we call a Yankee screwdriver: Namely a hammer to drive the screws in!
On softer woods, works better than screwing them in, retention wise, that is.
I've seen electrical linemen do this several times on utility poles. Oh, you want a cable clamp over this wire? Check: 1 clamp & 1 lag bolt. BamBamBam! Bam!! Done!