[Boatanchors] Stripped Screws - Ignore Alien Orders !

[Glenn Little WB4UIV]

I worked at a TV station where the Chief Engineer had no concept as 
to the designation of screw sizes. All #10 screws are the same. We 
had racks that used 10-32 and others that used 10-24 bolts. He would 
grab the electric screw stripper, set the torque to max and proceed 
to install 10-24 screws into a rack tapped for 10-32. It really made 
removing a piece of equipment very difficult, especially after he 
rounded out the Phillips head.

I no longer work there.

I am not the chief Engineer at another TV station in the same market. 
If I see someone approaching one of the racks with an electric screw 
stripper, I relieve them of it and give them a proper screw driver.

Sure makes equipment maintenance easier.

There are at least three screw drivers that look like Phillips. There 
is Phillips, JIS, and posidrive.

Each have a use. Using the correct tool keeps the heads in better 
shape. Most of the time that I work on a camera or deck, I throw away 
a number of screws that were previously removed or installed with an 
improper driver.

73
Glenn
WB4UIV



At 09:33 PM 12/16/2008, Duane Fischer, W8DBF wrote:
>There are those among the Homo Sapien race, who for reasons as yet 
>to be determined by the Clinical Psychologists at the Disney World 
>animal health complex)  who derive great joy from crossthreading 
>screws, mistaking a left hand thread pattern from a right hand one 
>and always adding from 10 to 15 additional foot pounds of torque to 
>the manufacturer's clearly stated allocation! Maybe it is for the 
>thrill of watching the threads peal off like overly ripe banana 
>peelings or just to see how many additional foot pounds of torque 
>can be applied before the tensile limit is surpassed and the "Salt 
>Water Taffy" stretch marks bend the object into some diverse and 
>fascinating geometrical shape.
>
>Doing it the correct way just is not any fun for them anymore. So 
>they give old Chubby Checker's big locomotion of anatomical parts 
>from the late fifties and early sixties, AKA 'The Twist' some shake, 
>rattle and roll motions. Just keep them out of your home based 
>machine shop and away from sharp objects and any sandbox containing 
>Limbo Rocks!
>
>Happy tapping OM -
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "BLIMPY" <blimpboy at sonic.net>
>To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
>Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 8:23 PM
>Subject: [Boatanchors] Stripped Screws - Ignore Alien Orders !
>
>
>>
>>Ignore Alien Orders !
>>
>>For crying out loud... don't funk up your rare radios.. like a 
>>Johnson Navigator with epoxy and toothpicks !
>>
>>I mean who told you this.. some toothless drunk in a trailer park ??
>>
>>What you do is buy a tap for the next size larger machine screw... 
>>standard sizes are 6-32  ( eg # 6 screw, with 32 threads per inch 
>>or tpi), 8-32 ,
>>10-32  or 10-24.
>>
>>Then you buy the appropriate NUMBER SIZE DRILL   ( info will be 
>>with the tap).
>>
>>And you buy and inexpensive tap chuck.
>>
>>1. drill out the hole
>>2,  Tap the hole with the tap.. using a small amount of oil.   Read 
>>info on how this is done.
>>
>>3.  Substitute nice new screws of the appropriate size for the 
>>newly tapped holes.
>>
>>Everything you need can be bought at any good ACE hardware store.
>>
>>End of story.
>>
>>Larry
>>
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