[TheForge] Square headed screws

Thu May 16 21:45:01 2002

        Frosty,  I take the hex lags and just reforge the heads.  I use a
rosebud so it's not traditional.  :-)

Ralph


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Frost" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 8:12 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Square headed screws


> As my toe projects proceed I ran into the problem so many of us run into,
> namely those pesky square headed screws.
>
> A search of all the local hardware stores of course turned up zippo so I
put
> on my improvisors hat and looked again. The solution was one of those head
> slapper moments.
>
> Looking through the boxes of specialty hardware I once again saw the
decent
> selection of square nuts and while lamenting the derth of square headed
> screws the light went on.
>
> So what I did was buy six each 5/16" sq. nuts for the (buffalo post drill)
> and six each 3/8" sq. nuts. (for the Champion) Then I moseyed over to the
> fasteners in bins section and picked up 6 each 5/16" x 2 1/2" and 3/8" x
3"
> hanger bolts. For those who don't know, hanger bolts have a wood screw on
> one end and machine screw threads on the other. See where I'm going with
> this? <grin>
>
> I cut the machine screw ends to length, welded on the square nuts, ground
> them smooth, painted them to match the color scheme and voila square
headed
> screws.
>
> The hardware cost me about $0.55 & $0.74 each respectively and about five
> minutes labor each which is okay if you only need a few like I did. If I
> needed very many I'd just order the darn things and be done with it but
this
> was an acceptible field expedient.
>
> Just thought you'd like to know.
>
> Frosty
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> it ain't real.
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