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Smitty Two wrote:

That's funny, 13 replies and I didn't see one that suggested the easy
way that I do all the time for similar stuff:

1. Hold screwdriver with tip pointing up, balance phillips head screw on
it.

2. Turn can upside down and lower it over the screw and screwdriver
until the screw is through the hole.

3. Hold the can and screwdriver firmly together, trapping the screw as
you turn it all right side up.

4. Put the tip of the screw in the pilot hole in the wood.

5. Start the screw in the hole with a few turns before optionally
letting go of the can.

Yes, this idea was suggested once before, way up in the thread.

THANK YOU!

But a problem now comes to me:

AD I put the can, now right-side-up, down near the wood,
I can't SEE the wood-hole. Not even with a flashlight,
because the angle-of-view is too nearly flat.

And sliding around the can, with the screw sticking out
the bottom, feeling for the hole, won't work for me,'
because the wood (pine) grabs onto the screw-point
wherever it hits the wood.

(Were the surface steel, no sweat, since the point
would slide freely until falling into the hole.)


David