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Larry Jaques
 
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Default How much weight can a wall support (mounting a cabinet on a wall)

On 26 Nov 2003 09:22:20 GMT, otforme (Charlie Self)
brought forth from the murky depths:

todd responds:

Don't forget that they're also designed to be drilled into a metal stud.
Perhaps they are as hard as they are to be able to drill through the steel


Might be, except I think drywall screws pre-date metal studs by quite a few
years.

And it has never bothered fastener manufacturers to put out an extra product or
two to cover things like metal studs. The confusion factor is not theirs, it's
ours.


Don't they use self-drilling drywall screws for metal studs?
That sounds like a new product.


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