[TheForge] Square headed screws

Fri May 17 17:00:10 2002

I thought about reforging the heads but wanted to minimize my exposure to
the cadmium plating. Less than 5 secs. under the mig outside and I held my
breath. Wore a dust mask for the grinding.

Doing it this way also preserved all the plating except on the very head so
I don't have to worry about them rusting in the beam.

One last word about these home made square headed lag screws. I am NOT going
to use them for ANYTHING structural. Even though I know what I'm doing I
would not trust anybody's health or wellbeing to them. All they're goning to
hold are a couple post drills w/6 screws each.

Frosty
------------------------
If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ralph Sproul" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Square headed screws

>         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
> > ------------------------
> > If it ain't forged
> > it ain't real.
> > Wrought iron is.
> > The FrostWorks
> >
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